On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:01 AM, David Bremner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The automatic conversion of environment variables containing ':' into > arrays seems to be not so great to me. In particular it leads to mystifying > experiences like the following. [...] >From a practical point of view this means that any URLs inherited from > the environment are mangled. [...] [...] >The only alternative that comes to mind is to special case PATH.
There is no way around special-casing which variables must be converted from colon-separated to array and which should not. Currently Fish converts all variables except those it knows it should not. For example, WWW_HOME and DISPLAY are not converted. Perhaps it should only convert variables it knows should be converted, like PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, MANPATH, CLASSPATH, PYTHONPATH, LS_COLORS, XDG_DATA_DIRS, GTK_RC_FILES, SESSION_MANAGER(?). > Not to mention that ':' is AFAIK a valid > character in a path (my home directory used to be on SFS, which uses ':'). I can't make it work in Bash or Tcsh. How is ":" inside a file name distinguished from a delimiter? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
