From: Chris Siebenmann <cks>
To: rc
Subject: Re: more wishes for chrismas
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 17:05:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <92Dec4.170532est.2645@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu> (raw)
| 1) back slash to escape a single character or alternatively
| 2) make '#' introduce a comment only at the beginning of a line or
| if preceeded by white space only.
Ugh and ugh.
These go against the whole philosophy of quoting in rc (not to
mention breaking existing scripts, especially 2). If you want to make
this modification, please don't call the result 'rc'. You might be
better off hacking up one of the shells designed to be user-cuddly at
all costs, even; zsh, say. No one cares about consistency in them.
- cks
next reply other threads:[~1992-12-04 22:05 UTC|newest]
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1992-12-04 22:05 Chris Siebenmann [this message]
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1992-12-06 8:21 Byron Rakitzis
1992-12-05 20:52 Emin Gun Sirer
1992-12-04 16:53 Tom Culliton x2278
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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