Re: Bash "bug" - in "read -e -r var"

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/15/14 11:13 AM, Dan Douglas wrote:

> Ah ok I thought -e basically negated the effect of -r for some reason but I
> guess not (like you can still use \ to escape line continuations without -r it
> seems). 

They're separate but kind of clumsy to use together for line continuations.
`read' ends up calling readline N times for every N-1 backslash-escaped
newlines.  If -r is supplied it doesn't need to do anything out of the
ordinary for \<newline>.

In terms of backslash escaping characters in the line read, backslash
isn't really special to readline, it's just mapped to self-insert.  You
still have to use quoted-insert to insert characters that are bound to
line editing commands.

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