From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by werple.net.au (8.7/8.7.1) with ESMTP id FAA00412 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 05:12:11 +1100 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA24649; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 12:51:13 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 12:51:13 -0500 (EST) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199601081751.SAA02686@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Subject: Re: A tweak of CSH_JUNKIE_QUOTES To: A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Zefram) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 18:51:41 +0100 (MET) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <27792.199601070729@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> from "Zefram" at Jan 7, 96 07:29:37 am Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Phone: (36 1)2669833 ext: 2667, home phone: (36 1) 2752368 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP3 *ALPHA*] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"P6SsI1.0.016.GcLym"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/724 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > The patch below makes a slight `improvement' to the CSH_JUNKIE_QUOTES > option. In order to emulate csh more accurately, this patch makes the > option prevent \ from quoting anything except a newline inside double > quotes. This makes zsh emulate csh behaviour fully w.r.t. single and > double quotes. Behaviour in backquoted expressions is still different, > but I suspect that that would be just too awkward to emulate fully. > This change is very simple. Just a note here. My releases emulate csh correctly in this respect even in backquoted expressions sine about last march :-). But that was really the smallest problem in the baseline lexer. Cheers, Zoltan