Re: Replacement strings

2014-07-04 Thread Ole Tange
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Ole Tange tange.dk> writes: >> I was wrong. I analysed a few million lines of perl code: {{...}} is >> not that uncommon. However, {= ... =} is extremely uncommon. So unless >> there are heavy reason not to, then {= ... =} will be the magic >>

Re: Testing "Brazil" on Cygwin... is that expected?

2014-07-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: > locked /home/gratz/.parallel/semaphores/id-my_id.locknlinks1 > 1<2nlinks1 As this test works just fine on my home machine (on a local NTFS disk) I think the reason is that the file system that contains my home directory (a NetApp filer) simply doesn't allow me to create hardl

Re: Replacement strings

2014-07-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Ole Tange writes: >> This is also fantastically complicated to type, depending on the keyboard >> language and how you get at the alternate characters. If you are insisting >> on the braces, then please consider at least using {~ ... ~}. > > I am open to other ideas. To type: {= I use 4 key presse