Re: Compile warnings in new post/pslatex terminal code

[<dan...@ie...>]

> On Sunday 13 February 2005 01:17 pm, Harald Harders wrote:
>> > >
>> Then I ask myself why isn't that done in that way for all options that
>> contain strings. Thas has been a question to me for a long time: If I
>> type
>> in
>>     set title '\hello'
>> why is it saved as
>>     set title "\\hello"
>> ? I would prefer to preserve the quotation marks and the original form=
at
>> in all cases.
>
> I agree. I pointed this out as being a problem while I was struggling
> with handling string variables.  I ended up being able to work around
> it, but I also think that the single-quoted-ness or double-quoted-ness
> of a string should be maintained across a save/load operation.
> Currently it is not, so you cannot guarantee to reproduce the current
> state.

Keep in mind that if one is to type in a newline character "\n", double
quotes are a must, for otherwise stuff like "\newenvironment" or somethin=
g
similar would fail.  It would have to be "\\newenvironment".

Dan