I hadn't realized that autoconf used M4. M4 is amazingly hard to work with, mainly because it uses ` and ' as delimiters, making it very hard to even read unles

I hadn't realized that autoconf used M4. M4 is amazingly hard to work with, mainly because it uses ` and ' as delimiters, making it very hard to even read unless you have syntax highlighting set up to show those quotes as different characters. Here's an example from the web: define(`START_HTML', `<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="Author" content="D. Robert Adams"> <title>$1</title> </head> <body text="#000000" ifdef(`BACKGROUND_IMAGE', `background="BACKGROUND_IMAGE"') bgcolor="#e5e5e5" link="#3333ff" vlink="#000099" alink="#ffffff"> ')