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From: swick@athena.mit.EDU (Ralph Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Strange problem with the translation manager
Message-ID: <9106271252.AA00300@lyre.MIT.EDU>
Date: 27 Jun 91 12:52:04 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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I said ---

>> 
>>      Shift<Key>F1:         string("echo this is shift F1\n")  \n \
>> 
>> The Xt specification only permits Latin-1 characters inside the double
>> quotes, so the new-line is the cause of problem.  (The MIT implementation
>> is more permissive than the spec, but new-line is still not allowed.)
>> 

but I was wrong about the last statement.  In patch 17, I changed
the MIT implementation to allow embedded newlines in quoted action
parameters, in response to a bug report.  Only a second quote or
a NUL will terminate the scan now.

Sorry bout that loss of consciousness.  Back to packing...