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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] notmuch-emacs-mua: non-forking escape () usage with\r
+ backslash '\' escape\r
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+Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:\r
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+> Use the printf -v convention to give output variable as argument\r
+> to escape () function so no subshell needs to be executed for\r
+> escaping input. The '-v' option to escape () is just syntactic\r
+> sugar for better understanding.\r
+>\r
+> Also, backslash is now escaped with another backslash for emacs. This\r
+> ie especially important at the end of string.\r
+>\r
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+s/ie/is/, but I can amend that. Otherwise looks ok.\r
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+d\r