Re: sed, pathnames, commas, ?(shell functions)

[Robert Anderson]

On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 08:16, Robert Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 02:29, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Robert Anderson <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > If I submit a patch using shell functions to make the sed
substitutions
> > > in config.status "comma safe", will it be considered?
> > 
> > I suspect that's more likely that we'll introduce shell functions in
> > new features than start right away in replacing old code with shell
> > functions.  This process has already started.  At some point it will
> > gather steam but it might be a bit early right now.

It occurs to me that this could also be solved by generating a small
standalone script using the tmpdir mechanism, to replace the shell
function.  Would that solution be preferable?

Bob