Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!daemon From: dgcasperson@daisy.waterloo.edu Newsgroups: uw.unix Subject: insane quotes Message-ID: <16921@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 3 Oct 89 18:21:58 GMT Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu Reply-To: dgcasperson%daisy.waterloo.edu@watdragon.waterloo.edu Distribution: uw Lines: 15 From: david CaspersonThe 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