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From:	culliton@srg.af.mil (Tom Culliton x2278)
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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
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>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