Re: About `M-C-e` expand result `'` failed

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/30/24 10:59 AM, Zachary Santer wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 10:04 AM Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > The command is doing exactly what it is documented to do, that is do all
> > of the shell word expansions.
>
> Quote Removal shows up as a subsection of the Shell Expansion section in
> the manual, but it doesn't show up in the list of expansions at the
> beginning of that section.[1] Additionally, we see the following:
> > After these expansions are performed, quote characters present in the
> original word are removed unless they have been quoted themselves (quote
> removal).

Quote removal is part of the shell word expansion process. POSIX lists it
as one of the word expansions, and it is.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_06

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