Bug#165063: debian-policy: Section `12.8.3 Packages providing a terminal emulator' fails to sufficently document the -e option
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? -- G. Branden Robinson| Never attribute to malice that Debian GNU/Linux | which can be adequately explained [EMAIL PROTECTED] | by stupidity. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | pgpt3Bg5kWCFL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#165063: debian-policy: Section `12.8.3 Packages providing a terminal emulator' fails to sufficently document the -e option
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? That won't help with the quoting.
Bug#165063: debian-policy: Section `12.8.3 Packages providing a terminal emulator' fails to sufficently document the -e option
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 01:52:49AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: 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? That won't help with the quoting. Feel free to read what I wrote as support the -e option as xterm does. j -- G. Branden Robinson| The last Christian died on the Debian GNU/Linux | cross. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | pgpWw8iI2vMxl.pgp Description: PGP signature
