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- From: idf@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ian Fitchet)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: Is anyone using m4?
- Message-ID: <IDF.92Nov10144858@fat-controller.cs.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 14:48:58 GMT
- References: <crigler.720808909@eola.cs.ucf.edu>
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- Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham
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- In-Reply-To: crigler@cs.ucf.edu's message of 3 Nov 92 16:41:49 GMT
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- Just to be awkward, m4 may well be cool, very cool or indeed the very
- thing but when I used it with tvtwm (as tvtwm uses it to parse it's
- startup files) it proved to be a minor pain as you couldn't have, say,
- an xterm with -name HOME as it would become -name /usr4/pg/idf or
- whatever.
-
- I didn't investigate completely (standing by for flaming captain) but
- there didn't appear to be a way of indicating that the following word
- was an m4 symbol as opposed to 'what I want'. I would have preferred
- the $(HOME) syntax of make, say, but then I never used it for a useful
- purpose so I don't know how much of a pain that would be for _real_
- users.
-
- --
- Cheers,
-
- Ian
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- Ian Fitchet I.D.Fitchet@cs.bham.ac.uk
- School of Computer Science
- Univ. of Birmingham, UK, B15 2TT
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