Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!qubix!lab 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 Lines: 22 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