Quoth Skip Tavakkolian <[email protected]>:
> I don't believe there is a good way of preserving quotes (') in $*. I
> ran into this while trying to:
>
> % window winwatch -e '^(winwatch|stats|faces)' # will not work
> % window winwatch -e '''^(winwatch|stats|faces)''' # works
>
> I think this comes down to how quotes are handled in $*:
>
> % tail -1 /rc/bin/window # the relevant line
> if not echo new -cd `{pwd} $* >> `{getwctl}
>
> having to stack quotes manually makes interactions like cut-paste
> awkward/unusable.
hi skip; yeah, this is a bit unfortunate/ugly.. we have to use whatis
to wrap it in quotes in case it contains rc syntax, and then trim off
the cmd= bit, the following would be for 9front's /rc/bin/window, but
isn't too dissimilar from your sources, except that for *, we can't
let it expand:
{whatis '*' | ...}
diff 0a95f5b69eb5f4b57b50b0e8389f05138dc32427 uncommitted
--- a/rc/bin/window
+++ b/rc/bin/window
@@ -106,5 +106,5 @@
if(! ~ $#wdir 0)
spec=($spec -cd `{a=$wdir whatis a|sed 's!^a=!!;q'})
- echo new $spec $argv0 -x $cmd >>$wctl
+ echo new $spec $argv0 -x `{whatis cmd | ssam -n '#4,'} >>$wctl
}
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