Backout ad09ce1d393c and replace ''' with """ to make some highlighting happy. I have tried Debian's default emacs and the current CVS version. Default emacs doesn't have highlighting enabled (and being emacs-illiterate I don't know how to enable it) and the CVS emacs' Python highlighting has no problems with ' characters here.

#!/bin/sh

hg init repo
cd repo
touch foo
hg add foo
for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11; do
    echo "foo-$i" >> foo
    hg ci -m "foo-$i" -d "0 0"
done

for out in "%nof%N" "%%%H" "%b-%R" "%h" "%r"; do
    echo "# foo-$out.patch"
    hg export -v -o "foo-$out.patch" 2:tip
done