Re: inconsistent treatment of backslash-bang

[pk <pk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 22 July 2008 13:38, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> And even with the specialness of bang turned off, it still doesn't work
> right:
> 
> ldo@theon:~> set +H
> ldo@theon:~> echo "hi there!"
> hi there!
> ldo@theon:~> echo "hi there\!"
> hi there\!
> ldo@theon:~> echo hi there!
> hi there!
> ldo@theon:~> echo hi there\!
> hi there!

This looks perfectly fine to me. The ! is treated just like any other
non-special character.