Fix handling of physical newlines in -v arguments and related improvemnts.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/node.c b/node.c
index 54ea6627..4ad41ef1 100644
--- a/node.c
+++ b/node.c
@@ -451,6 +451,8 @@ make_str_node(const char *s, size_t len, int flags)
 				if (c < 0) {
 					if (do_lint)
 						lintwarn(_("backslash at end of string"));
+					if ((flags & ELIDE_BACK_NL) != 0)
+						continue;
 					c = '\\';
 				}
 				*ptm++ = c;