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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: coloring a substitution
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 16:32:56 -0800
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On 2022-11-08 16:11, Bart Schaefer wrote:

On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 3:49 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Therewego, > $'\e[' < replaces  > \x1b\[ <.

Actually $'\x1b[' would work too.  The important bit is that $'...'
triggers interpretation of those.

So sed figures out the interpretation of that escape by itself but zshwant's to make it explicit. That's fine. There's always the issue ofwhat's literal unless made special vs what's special unless made literaland if you gain the one you lose the other. No free lunch.

References:
- coloring a substitution
  - From: Ray Andrews
- Re: coloring a substitution
  - From: Roman Perepelitsa
- Re: coloring a substitution
  - From: Ray Andrews
- Re: coloring a substitution
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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