Re: Changing how config variables are expanded

2020-06-27 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 08:37:23AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 26Jun2020 09:17, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: One thing I can do is keep the escaping *only* for the cases it might be needed, such as hook command extraction. I am for removing _all_ the escaping. Anything that mangles the value

Re: Changing how config variables are expanded

2020-06-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 26Jun2020 09:17, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: >On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:49:41PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: >>On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 03:54:24PM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: >>>Is it worth correcting this? >>> >>yes, doing parsing and quoting in the right layers is important. >>failure