Re: sed --posix does not catch incomplete arguments

2010-06-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Bruno Haible writes: > > The Austin group > > take this morning is that allowing -e fragments is a useful addition for > > the next revision of the standard, but that there are still > > implementations today (like AIX) that don't support it now, so it will > > be several years before sed -e 1{ -e

Re: backslashes in macro arguments

2010-06-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Karl, * Karl Berry wrote on Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:04:41PM CEST: > Other characters that need to be quoted in macro arguments are > curly braces and backslash. > > I committed a new http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo.tex (and in > gnulib, etc., etc.) which purports to handle \\

Re: sed --posix does not catch incomplete arguments

2010-06-18 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/18/2010 06:46 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > 2010-06-18 Bruno Haible > > * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Mention portability > problem of sed -e option with script fragments. Thanks; applied. However, it would be nicer if you submitted actual git commits (either

Re: sed --posix does not catch incomplete arguments

2010-06-18 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, Eric Blake reported in : > The Austin group > take this morning is that allowing -e fragments is a useful addition for > the next revision of the standard, but that there are still > implementations today (like AIX) that do