RE: st: local macro

[Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- daniel hoechle wrote:
> While I can produce local macro MarkStr with content 
> "100 250 here-->" by typing
>
> . local MarkStr "100 250 here-->"
> 
> I do not manage to produce a macro containing the string: 
> "100 250 "here-->""

What you want are called compound quotes, see -help quotes-

local MarkStr `"100 250 "here-->""'
di `"`MarkStr'"'

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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