> 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.
The real problem is that when rio(1) reads what window(1) writes to
the wctl file this gets passed to an invocation of `rc -c ...` which
means you end up going through eval again.
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Cheers,
Alex Musolino
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