Re: Fwd: REVIEW REQUEST - user manual generation

[Gavin Smith]

On 12 June 2016 at 18:09, Vincent Belaïche <address@hidden> wrote:
> Even simpler is the following:
>
> --8<----8<----8<----8<----8<-- begin -->8---->8---->8---->8---->8----
>   in_input_funnies=`echo "$in_input" \
>     | $SED -e 's![^}#$%&^_{~]!!g' -e 's!\(.\)!\1\''
> !g' | uniq`
> --8<----8<----8<----8<----8<--  end  -->8---->8---->8---->8---->8----
>
> The trick is simply to add a tailing '' just before the newline, this
> does not change the content of the argument passed to sed, but prevents
> sh from seeing the sequence \NEWLINE.

Thanks a lot, it looks obvious when you see it.

>
> Anyway, I had to make another fix: you need to have the filename as an
> argument of its own, otherwise MSYS can't do its path name conversion
> ticks. After all, the whole thing about catcoding rather than explicit
> ecaping (ie replacing for instance '~' by '\string~') is to keep the
> filename unchanged.
>
> Attached is a patch with the two changes:
>
> - the passing \NEWLINE to sed stuff
>
> - making input filename an argument of its own.

Committed and uploaded!