From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cheviot.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.2.10]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <2664>; Fri, 4 Dec 1992 09:03:59 -0500 Received: from ncl.bygate (bygate.ncl.ac.uk) by cheviot.ncl.ac.uk id (5.65cVUW/NCL-CMA.1.35 for ) with SMTP; Fri, 4 Dec 1992 14:03:32 GMT From: Gerry.Tomlinson@newcastle.ac.uk Message-Id: Subject: Re: more wishes for chrismas To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 09:03:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <9212041253.AA01867@dahlie.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>; from "malte@de.uni-bielefeld.techfak" at Dec 4, 92 12:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] > > 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. -- Gerry.Tomlinson@newcastle.ac.uk Computing Laboratory, The University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU Tel: +44 091 222 8139