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Re: [BUG]builtin echo error doing arguments parsing

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 11:32 AM, Peter Stephenson
<p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 09:37:11 +0000
> Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 23:23:09 -0800
>> wumingxwk@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> > if there is only a '-' as argument，builtin echo won't print it
>>
>> You might have thought it should at least be turned off in some or most
>> of the emulation modes...
>
> Would look something like this.  Probably a good idea if there aren't
> subtleties?

If we change it now, people would have to add a version check in
addition to their check for zsh to be able to echo things portably (to
know if they should add an extra - or not).

-- 
Mikael Magnusson
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