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On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 09:03:31AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> >   ... However,
> >   the double-quote character ( '"' ) shall not be treated specially
> >   within a here-document, except when the double-quote appears within
> >   "$()", "``", or "${}".
> >
> > So OK, that sounds like ksh is doing the right thing. But what's that
> > "specially" in the last sentence?
> 
> I would say: Just like \X is passed thru as-is without losing \, \"
> is passed thru without losing \, because " is not special, just like
> X is not special.

Yeah, that was my reading, too (sorry, my question was mostly
rhetorical; imagine me reading it in an exaggerated surprised "woah,
what's this?" voice. :) ).

-Peff