On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>>> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>>> texmfstart does not handle = in --argument propertly. For example
>>>>
>>>> texmfstart --verbose --arguments="a=b" bin:echo
>>>
>>> and what does
>>
>> Both give incorrect output
>>
>>> texmfstart --verbose "--arguments=a=b" bin:echo
>>
>> texmfstart --verbose "--arguments=a=b" bin:echo
>
> the first argument of texmfstart is considered to be the called script, prog
> etc
>
> texmfstart [optional args for texmfstart] [prog to call] [args to prog]
>
> so the question is, what do you want to achieve
>
>> texmfstart --verbose bin:echo "--args=a=b"
> texmfstart version 2.0.3
> using 'system' call: echo --args=a=b
> --args=a=b
I want to call vim with the following arguments (all in one line)
vim -u NONE -e -C -n -c "set tabstop=8" -c "source
/home/adityam/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/third/vim/2context.vim"
-c "wqa" test-vimsyntax.tmp
So, I use the following command: (in one line)
texmfstart --verbose bin:vim "-u NONE -e -C -n -c \"set
tabstop=8\" -c \"source kpse:2context.vim \" -c \"wqa\" test-vimsyntax.tmp "
which gives
texmfstart version 2.0.3
kpse : direct (forced)
locating '2context.vim' in program space 'context'
2context.vim is resolved to
/home/adityam/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/third/vim/2context.vim
using 'system' call: vim -u NONE -e -C -n -c "set tabstop="8" -c
"source /home/adityam/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/third/vim/2context.vim "
-c "wqa" test-vimsyntax.tmp "
Notice that texmfstart has mungled the quotes. There are quotes around 8,
and an extra quote in the end. The man page of texmfstart says
--arguments=str
an alternative for providing the arguments to be passed. For
example,
texmfstart --arguments=b.tex texexec
will pass b.tex as the argument to texexec.
So, I was trying to use --arguments to see if that works better than the
default. But --arguments fails does worse (again on one line)
texmfstart --verbose --arguments="-u NONE -e -C -n -c \"set
tabstop=8\" -c \"source kpse:2context.vim \" -c \"wqa\" test-vimsyntax.tmp "
bin:vim
texmfstart version 2.0.3
using 'system' call: vim -u NONE -e -C -n -V10log -c "set tabstop
sh: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
So, how do I use texmfstart to get what I need? I cannot call vim directly
because I want to use kpse to search for the exact path of 2context.vim
file.
Aditya
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