From: culliton@srg.af.mil (Tom Culliton x2278)
To: malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: more wishes for chrismas
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 11:53:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9212041153.aa03906@ceres.srg.af.mil> (raw)
>I'd like to add two things to the christmas wishlist:
>
>1) back slash to escape a single character or alternatively
NO NO NO NO! God protect us from creeping featurism! One of the most
beautiful things about rc as it stands is the purity and simplicity of
it's quoting. I remember battling with the quoting in sh and ksh and
can't stand the thought of going back.
>2) make '#' introduce a comment only at the beginning of a line or
> if preceeded by white space only.
>
>Our new students find it difficult to quote emacs backup file names when they
>want to move or delete them.
>
>Malte
This is how I currently use the comment character, but rc's existing
simplicity still seems perferable to me.
Tom
next reply other threads:[~1992-12-04 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1992-12-04 16:53 Tom Culliton x2278 [this message]
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1992-12-06 8:21 Byron Rakitzis
1992-12-05 20:52 Emin Gun Sirer
1992-12-04 22:05 Chris Siebenmann
1992-12-04 14:58 peter
1992-12-04 14:02 Alan Watson
1992-12-04 14:48 ` Steve Rezsutek
1992-12-05 16:21 ` Dave Mason
1992-12-04 12:53 malte
1992-12-04 14:03 ` Gerry.Tomlinson
1992-12-08 15:21 ` Mark-Jason Dominus
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