piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) (05/30/91)
>>>>> liberte@CS.UIUC.EDU (DL) writes: DL> In the case of quoting the quotes in regular expressions, DL> "counter-intuitive" is an understatement (related to euphemism). DL> Grossly obscure is more like it. (If I were to say it is "like a DL> breath of fresh air", that would be an ironic, sarcastic metaphor.) DL> Who amoung you has not struggled to get your quoted quotes right - DL> either in Emacs or in csh or wherever they appear. I still remember very well how I got the quotes working in one of my csh scripts and what a shock it was when the thing didn't work on another Unix system. If you compare Emacs' conventions with csh's they ARE intuitive :=). See the following lines from the above mentioned csh script: eval echo csh -c \'\"\'\""(nice $ni $SHELL /usr/tmp/Batch"\"\''$$'\'\"" $out &)"\"\'\"\' )\ | $atcmd -- Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Telephone: +31 30 531806 Uucp: uunet!mcsun!ruuinf!piet Telefax: +31 30 513791 Internet: piet@cs.ruu.nl (*`Pete')