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From: lab@qubix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Unmatched ". bug in csh
Message-ID: <361@qubix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Jul-83 09:58:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: qubix.361
Posted: Wed Jul  6 09:58:02 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jul-83 03:05:30 EDT
Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, Saratoga, CA
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When trying to set up some vi abbreviations in my .login file,
I was constantly stymied by an annoying error message:
	Unmatched ".

which came from the following lines of my .login file:
	setenv EXINIT 'set ai redraw sm wm=14\
		ab qad Larry Bickford, decvax\!decwrl\!qubix\!lab'

If you see a " anywhere on those lines, I would be happy to know.
This is doubly infuriating since later in .login I have a WORKING syntax:

	setenv EXINIT "$EXINIT"'\
		\
		'

I have tried rearranging the first group in a ton of ways over the
two lines (including the second form), but get the same idiotic
error. If I move the abbreviation to the second setenv, or split
the first into two setenv's (each on its own line), it works.
WHAT IS GOING ON HERE???

Larry Bickford, {ucbvax,decvax}!decwrl!qubix!lab