On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 09:52 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 03:46:44AM +0000, Brian M. Carlson wrote:
[including kthxbye as a control@ command terminator] > Damnit, let us have our easter eggs. :-) Easter eggs are supposed to be hidden, so people shouldn't be posting them to -devel and friends. Besides, we have the source. :-) > > Also, since this is very much related: the documentation should show > > ellipses > > after "quit" and "stop", as well, since the code[1] only checks for the > > beginning of those phrases. For example, I could tell control: > > > > quite a nice day, isn't it, control? > > > > and control should respond: > > > > Stopping processing here. > > > > Current documentation implies that it should report a syntax error instead. > > In the case of quit and stop I'm inclined to think that the code should > be changed to match the documentation. Then don't forget to check to remove the i (case-insensitive) modifier on the pattern match. But do remember that there are a lot of people who can't spell the word quit and want to append an "e" to it. I think some of those are even developers.
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