IMHO, it's a horrible hack that is just broken. It's obscure and we need to rewrite it because it has a bad structure. ^X^Cquit^[ESC][ESC]^C
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"The reason I use Perl is because I wanna write scripts that no one can read and no one can understand so that I can keep my job"