On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> The problem is the backslash before _ACEOF.  This comes from the code in
> general.m4, apparently.  Is there any strong reason why the here-document
> delimiter is backslashed?

Judging by the changelog, it was to accommodate a defective editor:

2000-10-12  Akim Demaille  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

        * tests/mktests.sh: Backslash the quote in the heredocs to help
        syntax highlighting tools.
        * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_UPDATE): Give a better AT_SETUP
        title.

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