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Re: Variable substitiution in help strings
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: Variable substitiution in help strings |
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Tue, 30 Dec 2003 13:33:05 -0500 (EST) |
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> The problem is the backslash before _ACEOF. This comes from the code in
> general.m4, apparently. Is there any strong reason why the here-document
> delimiter is backslashed?
Judging by the changelog, it was to accommodate a defective editor:
2000-10-12 Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
* tests/mktests.sh: Backslash the quote in the heredocs to help
syntax highlighting tools.
* tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_UPDATE): Give a better AT_SETUP
title.
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