Re: Portable use of "{", ";", etc. within sed scripts

[Noah Misch]

[ cc: trimmed somewhat ]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 01:45:59PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
>       * doc/autoconf.texi (Installation Directory Variables): Use
>       our own style advice re 's,a,b,' versus 's|a|b|'.  Use "Sed"
>       rather than "sed" when talking about Sed in general.

>       * tests/semantics.at (AC_CHECK_PROG & AC_CHECK_PROGS):
>       Use our own style advice re 's,a,b,' versus 's|a|b|'.

You introduced the `s|a|b|' convention to much of Autoconf in a change dated
2005-03-22, to support file names containing `,'.  The `s,a,b,' recommendation
in the manual predates that change.  Is `s,a,b' preferable after all, or is it
the manual's recommendation that should change?