Re: is easy to get hung in infinite ^G stream; how to stop it?

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <c90lqu$7in$1@reader2.panix.com>,
 dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) wrote:

> 228 ==/dkcjunk==> alias xalias 'printf "At startup, su(ck)-in one .smd 
> "subcommand"-file:\n  (NOTE: below, "su" is ok-abbrev for suck-in ("source") 
> cmd "subcommands t.smd",\n      meaning "read in the sub-commands located in 
> subcommands-file t.smd")\n  At startup, "su" EITHER:  cuffs.smd   OR    
> tools.smd\n    (should be local indir-symlinks *thru* 
> /home/dkc/4msnew/{cuffs,tools}.smd)"'
> 
> 228 ==/dkcjunk==> xalias
> \a\a\a\a\aqq
> \a\a\aq
> \a\aq
> \a\aQ
> \a\aq
> \a\aq
> \a\a
> \aq
> \a\a
> 
> See just above, my "g<return>", several of them.
> 
> Does nothing, I think.

Where's the "man" command in that alias?  What I see there is lots of 
quoting problems in the printf command.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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