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Subject: Re: more wishes for chrismas 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Dec 92 07:53:53 EST."
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Date:	Tue, 8 Dec 1992 10:21:23 -0500
From:	Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu>


> 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#'