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Re: shell-like Emacs CLI, and my Usenet behaviour
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: shell-like Emacs CLI, and my Usenet behaviour |
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Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:16:08 -0400 |
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In article <87eh9qpznc.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se>,
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:
> Putting it the other way around, are there any advantages to the
> Emacs way, or is it the way it is because of practical
> considerations when it was implemented?
The main advantage is that the user doesn't have to worry about
quoting/escaping arguments when they contain the character that would be
used as the parameter delimiter.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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