[uw.unix] insane quotes

dgcasperson@daisy.waterloo.edu (10/04/89)

From: david Casperson <dgcasperson@daisy>

The following bit of esoterica works under itcsh with sanequote set,
but there is no itcsh on daisy.  Can anybody tell me what the
insanequote translation of the following is?

if (-e ~/.emacs_lock) then
    alias emacs 'remacs'
else
    alias emacs 'iemacs'
endif
alias iemacs 'alias emacs \'remacs\' ;\'emacs\' ;if !(-e ~/.emacs_lock) alias emacs \'iemacs\''
alias remacs 'echo `pwd` \!* >\! ~/.emacs_args; %?emacs;if !(-e ~/.emacs_lock) alias emacs \'iemacs\''

                          --david Casperson