Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote, on 25 Apr 2022: > > However, on thing came to my minds again, which I think needs further > discussion... > > > The current "solution" to a number of previous problems is: > > Inside a bracket expression there cannot be any escape sequences. > Therefore, there cannot be any \n (in the sense of <newline>) nor any > \c (in the sense of "un-delimitering" the delimiter character c). > > > While this is per se perfectly valid (and solves numerous issues), it > has one problem: > > (at least) GNU sed breaks it already!
This was discussed during our work on bug 1233 and resulted in additions to the sed APPLICATION USAGE (line 106286 in draft 2.1) and FUTURE DIRECTIONS. -- Geoff Clare <[email protected]> The Open Group, Apex Plaza, Forbury Road, Reading, RG1 1AX, England
