[Tutor] Dumb question on emacs and python ...

[hcohen2]

Marilyn Davis wrote:

>On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, hcohen2 wrote:
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>>>On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, hcohen2 wrote:
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>>>>Marilyn,
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>>>>Just added a few more characters to the file name: was fgrepwc.py* to 
>>>>fgrepwc_allcnt.py*.
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>>>Well, that '*' at the end messes you up.  Try subtracting that and
>>>maybe emacs will behave for you.
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>>>Good luck.
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>>>Marilyn
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>>Marilyn,
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>>That's what I thought too, but (repeated it again) openning the file 
>>without the '*' yields an empty file.  It looks crazy to me too.
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>>I guess I am just going to write the file by pasting lines, or typing it 
>>in new.  The change in appearance and the failure to execute are too 
>>strong hints to ignore.
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>>Thanks for your help.
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>I guess I couldn't help.  I'm clueless.
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>>Herschel
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Marilyn,

Thanks for trying, just perhaps I was not as stupid as I thought. I will 
let you know if my suspicions about the color coding and the 
hightlighting prove to be significant. Perhaps it might save someone 
else the grief.

Herschel