Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Beta Emacs OACS module available

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Posted by Andrei Popov on

It is a wicked curly brace! And there's been a lengthy discussion on gnu-arch-users list about the WHYs and the HOWs of ++/=/,,/{ in arch-land. Tcsh does consider it to be a significant character and {arch} becomes plain arch, once expanded (similar to echo pen{,cil} having to produce a list of pen pencil). Quoting or escaping does help, but one needs to remove ~/.arch-params/=locations/bart-arch@thecodemill.biz--2004 first.

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Posted by Benjamin Bytheway on
The curly braces are a problem, and there's no need for them in archive locations.  The only place curly braces are still mandatory are the in-tree {arch} directories.

The reason they still show up places, is the tutorial uses them in its example of how to set up tla archives.  I believe the tutorial will soon be changed to discourage this unecessary use of {}.