On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:41:28AM +0100, Jonathan Amery wrote:
>  It doesn't interpret the command line after the -e option the same
> way that xterm does:
> 
>  xterm -e less .bash_profile
> 
>  runs `less .bash_profile' in a new terminal window whereas
> 
>  gnome-terminal -e less .bash_profile
> 
>  runs `less' in a new terminal window (and doesn't appear to do
> anything useful with the .bash_profile argument at all).
> 
>  gnome-terminal -e 'less .bash_profile' works of course, but that
> doesn't work for xterm.

Okay, I get it.  Yes, clarification is required.

I guess we have to mandate that -e be treated as the last
x-terminal-emulator option, eh?

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