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From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: authinfo and nnimap in gnus 5.8.7
Date: 09 Oct 2000 10:07:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafg0m6qvy5.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bmxsnq6isc0.fsf@mithrandir.eowyn.net>

On 08 Oct 2000, Karsten Huneycutt wrote:

> Might I suggest a full example in the documentation that clearly
> shows what things should be quoted, and which should not be?

This is not so easy to say.  Compare with shell wildcards.  Should
arguments to shell programs be quoted or not?

ls -l w*
ls -l "w*"

Both of these are meaningful commands, though the latter one is
probably rarely used.

But an example could be added for the most common case.

kai
-- 
I like BOTH kinds of music.



  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-09  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-08  4:03 Karsten Huneycutt
2000-10-08  9:53 ` Simon Josefsson
2000-10-09  3:52   ` Karsten Huneycutt
2000-10-09  8:07     ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2000-10-17 21:03     ` Simon Josefsson

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