Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC/PATCH] repoman: unroll escaped lines so we can check the entirety of it

[Zac Medico]

On 05/23/2012 09:06 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> Sometimes people wrap long lines in their ebuilds to make it easier to
> read, but this causes us issues when doing line-by-line checking.  So
> automatically unroll those lines before passing the full content down
> to our checkers.
>
> This seems to work, but maybe someone can suggest something simpler.

This code should come right after the line that says "We're not in a
here-document", because we only need it to trigger when we're not in a
here-document.

I think it's going to be cleaner to detect an escaped newline with a
regular expression, like r'(^|[^\\])\\$'.
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Thanks,
Zac