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

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> 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.

The fix which Leonard proposes would not affect the other supported
shells. Look at subshell_name_quote() in subshell.c. I am beginning
to wonther whether do we really want to escape the characters
using "echo" or "printf".