Re: [notmuch] [PATCH] Makefile: Enable backslash escapes for echo.

Subject: Re: [notmuch] [PATCH] Makefile: Enable backslash escapes for echo.

Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:41:10 +0100

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Jan Janak <jan@ryngle.com> wrote:

> I sent exactly the same patch a couple of days ago and it was
> rejected because it does not work everywhere, see:
>
> http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2009/000370.html

And as I said in that thread, I believe you should use printf instead.
(http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/echo+printf/ seems like a good
reference in this matter.)

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