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Re: A tweak of CSH_JUNKIE_QUOTES

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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: A.Main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zefram)
Subject: Re: A tweak of CSH_JUNKIE_QUOTES
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 18:51:41 +0100 (MET)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <27792.199601070729@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Zefram" at Jan 7, 96 07:29:37 am
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary
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> The patch below makes a slight `improvement' to the CSH_JUNKIE_QUOTES
> option.  In order to emulate csh more accurately, this patch makes the
> option prevent \ from quoting anything except a newline inside double
> quotes.  This makes zsh emulate csh behaviour fully w.r.t. single and
> double quotes.  Behaviour in backquoted expressions is still different,
> but I suspect that that would be just too awkward to emulate fully.
> This change is very simple.

Just a note here.  My releases emulate csh correctly in this respect even in
backquoted expressions sine about last march :-).  But that was really the
smallest problem in the baseline lexer.

Cheers,

Zoltan

References:
- A tweak of CSH_JUNKIE_QUOTES
  - From: Zefram

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