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- From: map@BBN.Com (Mike Patton)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
- Subject: Re: how can i insert a quote with (insert) ?
- Date: 7 Jan 93 12:52:10
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- In-reply-to: agrafiot@wl.com's message of Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:07:54 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.140754.9906@wl.com> agrafiot@wl.com (Dimitris Agrafiotis) writes:
- How can I insert a double quote (") with the insert command as part of
- a larger string? (insert "..."...")
-
- You're really asking the more general question of how do you represent
- a quote in a string and the answer is with backslash escape, just like
- in C. I.e. your example should be: (insert "...\"...")
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