Hi Ed, Please keep the mailing list copied, this is interesting for others as well. Thank you. * E. Rosten wrote on Wed, May 25, 2005 at 10:53:13AM CEST: > On Wed, 25 May 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >* E. Rosten wrote on Mon, May 23, 2005 at 06:59:05PM CEST: > > > >| M4 arguments are quoted with [ and ]. There is NO WAY to escape these, > >| however, you can change the quoting using: > >| > >| changequote(<<,>>) *snip* > >Please don't encourage use of changequote. > > How come? Documented in info Autoconf 'Changequote is Evil' > >Rather quadrigraphs. > > What are they (I haven't encountered them)? Is it a way of entering [ and > ] without [ and ] actually appearing? Documented in info Autoconf Quadrigraphs The whole section around m4 Quotation is interesting for this topic. Does this short answer help? Note you may need a recent Autoconf version for these sections, I don't actually know how old they are. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
