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Re: make :Q breakage



In article <20180527093201.GP62237%trav.math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>,
Edgar Fuß  <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost> wrote:
>> So the man page will say when I change it:
>> 
>>     :Q   Quotes every shell meta-character in the variable, so that it can be
>> 	 passed safely to the shell.
>> 
>>     :Qm   Quotes every shell meta-character in the variable and `$', so that
>> 	 it can be passed safely through recursive invocations of make.
>Wouldn't it be more obvious to have both :Qs and :Qm to explicitly state 
>what you intend plus a "historic" :Q (behaving like :Qs)?
>This would also make it easier to audt Makefiles for :Q mis-usage, I guess.

It is :Q and :q now. Good idea for the audit though, we could still support
:Qs and :Qm... Although I have to say that the audit is difficult (from
experience).

christos



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