Make ' work as string quote.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=2352

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0a44c25e..aa8604e0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,8 +1,16 @@
+				To do:
+
+* Warn user that fetchmailconf autoprobe may take a while?  (It can hang for
+  10 or 12 minutes if it hits a firewall that drops SYN packets sent to denied
+  ports.)
 
 				Release Notes:
 
 fetchmail-4.7.6 ():
 * Henrik Storner's fix for mimedecode
+* ' now works as a string quote in. fetchmailrc syntax, just like ".
+
+There are 255 people on fetchmail-friends and 331 on fetchmail-announce.
 
 fetchmail-4.7.5 (Sat Jan  9 17:01:13 EST 1999):
 * Issue proper logout after running fetchmail -c
diff --git a/rcfile_l.l b/rcfile_l.l
index d1f1c36f..d86f790b 100644
--- a/rcfile_l.l
+++ b/rcfile_l.l
@@ -130,6 +130,14 @@ remote(folder)? {
 			yylval.sval = (char *) xstrdup(buf);
 			return STRING;
 		}
+\'[^\']*\'	{
+			char buf[MSGBUFSIZE];
+
+			yytext[strlen(yytext)-1] = '\0';
+			escapes(yytext+1, buf);
+			yylval.sval = (char *) xstrdup(buf);
+			return STRING;
+		}
 [^=;:, \t\r\n]+	{
 			char buf[MSGBUFSIZE];