From: Gerry.Tomlinson@newcastle.ac.uk
To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: more wishes for chrismas
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 09:03:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AA04806.9212041403.bygate@uk.ac.newcastle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9212041253.AA01867@dahlie.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>; from "malte@de.uni-bielefeld.techfak" at Dec 4, 92 12:57 pm
>
> I'd like to add two things to the christmas wishlist:
> 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.
>
> Our new students find it difficult to quote emacs backup file names when they
> want to move or delete them.
and how about lpr -#2 filename .... ?
Gerry.
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Gerry.Tomlinson@newcastle.ac.uk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1992-12-04 14:03 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 [this message]
1992-12-08 15:21 ` Mark-Jason Dominus
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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