Bug#988221: xterm: uses unescaped backslashes in manpage example

2021-05-08 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Thomas Dickey dixit: >The example is correct, however. xterm's manpage isn't a tutorial >on shell programming. Yes and yes, but it’s still over-microoptimised, in a way that is not helpful to users. bye, //mirabilos -- FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mksh interactively. I thought it was much *m

Bug#988221: xterm: uses unescaped backslashes in manpage example

2021-05-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, May 08, 2021 at 04:21:32AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Package: xterm > Version: 366-1 > Severity: minor > Tags: upstream > X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de > > The manual page includes example commands such as… > >printf '\033]2;Hello world!\033\' > > … which use unescaped b

Bug#988221: xterm: uses unescaped backslashes in manpage example

2021-05-07 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Package: xterm Version: 366-1 Severity: minor Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de The manual page includes example commands such as… printf '\033]2;Hello world!\033\' … which use unescaped backslashes at the end of the command. In general this works… $ printf '\' | hd 00