On 5 Apr 2011, at 8:56 pm, erik quanstrom wrote:

Me also. Yet another solution is not to use echo in the first place.
This won't work on p9p, but on plan 9 if you want to echo $foo where
$foo(1) might possibly be '-n', you can cat /env/foo instead.

please google the famous bikeshed post.

That was an easy comment off the top of my head. I am sorry I didn't read your post properly before posting. I get rather caught up in replying to people who want to add features when there's already a hundred workarounds because I thought I wasn't very good at solving problems. I'm very much not good enough to deal with my offline (not computer-related) problems which everyone around me wants to make out are trivial.

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