[i3] Confusing error message

[Sargrad, Dave]

I think the following should kill all windows having class Emacs23. The error 
message is very confusing:


ubuntu@example:~/.i3$ DISPLAY=:0.0 i3-msg [class=Emacs23] kill
ERROR: Your command: a kill
ERROR:   ^^
ERROR: Expected one of these tokens: end, '[', 'move', 'exec', 'exit', 
'restart', 'reload', 'shmlog', 'debuglog', 'border', 'layout', 'append_layout', 
'workspace', 'focus', 'kill', 'open', 'fullscreen', 'split', 'floating', 
'mark', 'unmark', 'resize', 'rename', 'nop', 'scratchpad', 'mode', 'bar'
[{success:false,parse_error:true,error:Expected one of these tokens: 
end, '[', 'move', 'exec', 'exit', 'restart', 'reload', 'shmlog', 'debuglog', 
'border', 'layout', 'append_layout', 'workspace', 'focus', 'kill', 'open', 
'fullscreen', 'split', 'floating', 'mark', 'unmark', 'resize', 'rename', 'nop', 
'scratchpad', 'mode', 'bar',input:a kill,errorposition:^^}]
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Re: [i3] Confusing error message

[Marian Beermann]

Escape the command.

DISPLAY=:0.0 i3-msg '[class=Emacs23] kill'

On 08.09.2014 19:37, Sargrad, Dave wrote:
 I think the following should kill all windows having class Emacs23. The error 
 message is very confusing:
 
 
 ubuntu@example:~/.i3$ DISPLAY=:0.0 i3-msg [class=Emacs23] kill
 ERROR: Your command: a kill
 ERROR:   ^^
 ERROR: Expected one of these tokens: end, '[', 'move', 'exec', 'exit', 
 'restart', 'reload', 'shmlog', 'debuglog', 'border', 'layout', 
 'append_layout', 'workspace', 'focus', 'kill', 'open', 'fullscreen', 'split', 
 'floating', 'mark', 'unmark', 'resize', 'rename', 'nop', 'scratchpad', 
 'mode', 'bar'
 [{success:false,parse_error:true,error:Expected one of these tokens: 
 end, '[', 'move', 'exec', 'exit', 'restart', 'reload', 'shmlog', 
 'debuglog', 'border', 'layout', 'append_layout', 'workspace', 'focus', 
 'kill', 'open', 'fullscreen', 'split', 'floating', 'mark', 'unmark', 
 'resize', 'rename', 'nop', 'scratchpad', 'mode', 'bar',input:a 
 kill,errorposition:^^}]
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