Re: bug with multiline strings parsing and single-quoted !

[Linda Walsh]

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 06:51:08PM +0400, Gennady Kupava wrote:
> > That was quite unexpected for me as a user. I checked sed script like this:
> > echo "a
> > b"| sed '/a/!d'
> >
> > And that implementation detail were highly unexpected... What is the point
> > of multiline edits if quotes are unreliable for certain characters?
>
> Disabling history expansion fixes all of these problems (at the cost
> of history expansion, obviously).
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But doesn't allow use of 'TAB's at the beginning of a physical line (or
a line with nothing but other white space on it (TABS & SPACES)...

That breakage is really a pain for someone who's used to cut/paste
working from editor->command line.