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Re: Sesquicolon -- Alternative to Shebang
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John H Swaby |
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Re: Sesquicolon -- Alternative to Shebang |
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Mon, 09 Sep 2002 22:05:03 -0600 (MDT) |
Great Idea!
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> John H Swaby <address@hidden> writes:
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> > :;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. ]
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> You could start the script with
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> ":";exec emacs ...
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> 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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