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Re: Sesquicolon -- Alternative to Shebang


From: Marius Vollmer
Subject: Re: Sesquicolon -- Alternative to Shebang
Date: 10 Sep 2002 01:31:28 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2

John H Swaby <address@hidden> writes:

>   :;exec emacs -batch -l $0 -f main $*
[...]  
> [ For older versions of Emacs, adding the arguments "-eval
> '(setq : t)'" to the sesquicolon line will take care of Emacs's
> evaluation of the colon. ]

You could start the script with

    ":";exec emacs ...

since ":" is the same as : to the shell and is self-evaluating in all
versions of Emacs.  The would be a quosesquicolon, then, right?  Or a
sequoscilon?

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