FVWM: FvwmM4 behaviour, anybody got a major investment in m4 code?

From: Manfred Bartz <mbartz_at_werple.net.au>
Date: 07 Oct 1997 10:19:58 +1000

I have started to use FvwmM4 for some adaptive startup behaviour.
E.g. starting xterms with different fontsizes and geometries.
However, I found that all predefined macros include an extra set of
quotes. E.g. the predefined "WIDTH" expands to "`1600'". I find this
very undesirable since it is not possible to do arithmetic with quoted
numbers, e.g with ``m4_eval()''. I have patched FvwmM4 for my
purposes to omit those extra quotes.

Question: Has anybody got a big investment in FvwmM4's current
quoting behaviour or should it be changed to allow arithmetic in m4?

Or possibly: Am I missing something?

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