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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Quotes (Was: Re: Was: Directory Files)
Message-ID: <1991May30.134323.23588@cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 30 May 91 13:43:23 GMT
References: <9105291539.AA07986@a.cs.uiuc.edu>
Sender: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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In-Reply-To: liberte@CS.UIUC.EDU

>>>>> liberte@CS.UIUC.EDU (DL) writes:

DL> In the case of quoting the quotes in regular expressions,
DL> "counter-intuitive" is an understatement (related to euphemism). 
DL> Grossly obscure is more like it.  (If I were to say it is "like a
DL> breath of fresh air", that would be an ironic, sarcastic metaphor.)

DL> Who amoung you has not struggled to get your quoted quotes right -
DL> either in Emacs or in csh or wherever they appear.

I still remember very well how I got the quotes working in one of my csh
scripts and what a shock it was when the thing didn't work on another Unix
system.
If you compare Emacs' conventions with csh's they ARE intuitive :=). See
the following lines from the above mentioned csh script:

eval echo csh -c \'\"\'\""(nice $ni $SHELL /usr/tmp/Batch"\"\''$$'\'\"" $out &)"\"\'\"\' )\
		| $atcmd
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