.bashrc question

[David Armour]

> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:46 AM, David Armour <d.f.armour <at> shaw.ca> 
> > wrote:
> > I'm getting the following two lines at the top of the terminal display:
<snip>
> > The referenced portions of /home/dave3/.bashrc:

> > 70  # enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
<snip>
> > 90

> it doesnt state that the missing '"' is on line 72, its merely says
> that that is where it stopped looking for it. The problem is on a
> previous line, you would have to go through your .bashrc file and
> match all the '"'s to find the oddball out.

Thank you [and Karl Auer] for your replies. I had gone through the file line by
line and looked for any obvious missing '"' marks, but your message encourages
me to have another look & bring my magnifying glass. 

Thanks also for the vim recommendation. I was using Diffuse to compare the
.bashrc file from a second machine to see if there were any glaring errors, but
Diffuse seemed a bit like shooting field mice with a .45. I didn't know vim
could do that, but it makes sense, now that you've mentioned it.
> 
> I usually print the file for ease of reading.
> 

Heh. That's also a bit of a tender point, at the moment. I've been having cups
issues since upgrading a few weeks back, and my already infamous printing
kludges have become almost epic. Don't mention the war!