question about csh quoting

[mark at elsie.UUCP]

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The problem with:

		%echo "Don't do that!"
		": Event not found.
		%

is not the "'", but the "!", which evokes the history mechanism of csh.

	%echo "Don't do that"
and
	%echo "Don't do that\!"

work just fine. Having to, occasionaly, backslash-protect the "!" is a small
price to pay for having history. Evoking the mechanism inside quotes is
probably a bug in csh, but easily overcome. Question is: is it worth some poor
hacker's time to fix it?
					--elsie!mark

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Mark J. Miller
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