"J. Kean Johnston" <jkj(a)sco.com&gt; writes: No, we couldn't. Some preprocessors can't handle long strings. This is why we started using comments in the first place. In fact, if you take a closer look at FSF Emacs, you'll notice that they use comments in some places where strings don't cut it. Look at the FSF docstrings of mode-line-format, buffer-display-table, buffer-undo-list (all in src/buffer.c) and some others. -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.