From: Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu>
To: rc@archone.tamu.edu
Cc: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu
Subject: Re: more wishes for chrismas
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 10:21:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9212081521.AA27087@saul.cis.upenn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Dec 92 07:53:53 EST." <9212041253.AA01867@dahlie.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
> 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.
Just for the information of people using GNU `readline':
If there is a file named
#foo#
in the current directory, then if you do filename completion on
'#
you get
'#foo#'
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1992-12-08 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1992-12-04 12:53 malte
1992-12-04 14:03 ` Gerry.Tomlinson
1992-12-08 15:21 ` Mark-Jason Dominus [this message]
1992-12-04 14:02 Alan Watson
1992-12-04 14:48 ` Steve Rezsutek
1992-12-05 16:21 ` Dave Mason
1992-12-04 14:58 peter
1992-12-04 16:53 Tom Culliton x2278
1992-12-04 22:05 Chris Siebenmann
1992-12-05 20:52 Emin Gun Sirer
1992-12-06 8:21 Byron Rakitzis
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