Re: [bug #18136] MC wont work with new bash-3.2 propeply with all directories.

[Thomas Dickey <dickey his com>]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> Ok. Since I am not native english speaker I cannot judge whether
> he is recommending it or not. In any case I can see why keeping
> the old behaviour of 'echo' is important for large scripts, however
> what we have in MC is nothing as big. I just feel that what Leonard
> is proposing is a hack and not an actual solution.
>
> > Anyway - perhaps 3.3 (I'm seeing too many reports of syntax errors in 
> > existing scripts to bother with 3.2.x).
>
> Does this mean that you think that bash 3.3 will reinstantiate the old 
> behaviour ?

Not for this ("echo -e" is a dead issue, though some of the discussion 
there touches on other problems). But it would be reasonable to expect it 
to fix the syntax errors.  Before rushing off to change things to 
accommodate bash 3.2, it's worth checking if the fix will work with other 
shells.

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