2014-04-09 22:02 GMT+04:00 Alexander S. <alex0pla...@gmail.com>: > 2014-04-08 1:14 GMT+04:00 Markus Teich <markus.te...@stusta.mhn.de>: >> The removed call can stop the pipeline from working, if one adds e.g. his >> history to the possible selections and the amount of entries gets too big. > Sorry, but this call is necessary if the property in question contains > non-ASCII characters. It's not unnecessary. Unless you can solve the > problem by other means, please don't break existing code. > Best regards, Alexander, the introducer of this xargs call. Oh wait, I actually introduced it into surf's SETPROP, but this one was probably copied from there. The point stands. For detailed explanation, see http://git.suckless.org/surf/commit/config.def.h?id=f6dc8b25418e541f7d7b9c3ce63c763918a15d90 http://git.suckless.org/surf/commit/config.def.h?id=e0e4a844f76311f4bfed542d34459dcfc68f9ddf
Best regards, Alexander.