Re: Fwd: read -n is confused by \

[Brett Kail]

Hello,

>     This is fixed in 3.1,

Looking at the release notes, I'm not sure how I missed this.  Sorry
for the noise.

>     Presumably, without -r, the backslash is not considered a
>     character, it is an escape mechanism.

Ok.  I just thought perhaps the docs could be clarified to mention the
distinction between "input characters" and "non-escaped characters". 
It's less of an issue now that the aforementioned bug has been fixed
and the behavior can be discovered emperically

Thanks,
-Brett