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From: jpayne%breakpoint@Sun.COM (Jonathan Payne)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Misbehavior in Jove
Keywords: MACRO
Message-ID: <57120@sun.uucp>
Date: 18 Jun 88 16:23:10 GMT
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In article <3120@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> towfigh@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mark Towfigh) writes:
>
>In your .joverc, make a macro (note that you need to use REAL escape
>characters, not '^' followed by '['):
>

Wrong.  You can (but don't have to) use '^' followed by '['.  In fact,
when JOVE saves macros to a file, it saves control characters as two
separate characters so that ^@ and ^M and ^J can be saved correctly.
If you want a real ^ in the file you have to backslash it.