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On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 02:52:11AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Support the command-line option "-e ", which creates a new
> terminal window and runs the specified command. may be
> multiple arguments, which form the argument list to the executed
> program.
Thomas Koch tho...@koch.ro writes:
I maintain termit. My opinion is, that the policy should rather ask for
sane behaviour and the proposed change does not look sane.
Could you please also ammend this topic with a few test cases to make
testing our terminal emulators easier and to be sure
Hi,
I maintain termit. My opinion is, that the policy should rather ask for sane
behaviour and the proposed change does not look sane.
Could you please also ammend this topic with a few test cases to make testing
our terminal emulators easier and to be sure that we're all talking about the
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On 07/09/12 09:41, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
The proposal is to amend that second bullet point:
|* Support the command-line option -e command arg...,
which | creates a new terminal window and runs the specified
command. | The
Hi terminal emulator authors (in bcc),
There is a policy proposal to clarify what
x-terminal-emulator -e args
does when there is one argument and when there are many arguments.
Currently policy says:
| To be an `x-terminal-emulator', a program must:
|* Be able to emulate a DEC
Le 2011-12-24 19:16, Russ Allbery a écrit :
Filipus Klutierochea...@gmail.com writes:
Regarding the formulation, your suggestion does fix the issue Hendrik
identified. I would still remind that the term command is ambiguous
(you must be referring to simple commands here).
I'm not sure how
There's some mail client that seems to mangle messages that contain words
inside angle brackets. Apparently Mozilla? It's doing weird things to
the whitespace when you quote.
Filipus Klutiero chea...@gmail.com writes:
I would simply suggest as a replacement:
Support the command-line
Filipus Klutiero wrote:
Le 2011-12-24 19:16, Russ Allbery a écrit :
x-terminal-emulator -e vi 'some file'
and know that it works. If you don't use exec, it won't.
I don't see why exec would be necessary. As long as the emulator supports
being given any simple command as its -e option,
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:28:22AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
There's some mail client that seems to mangle messages that contain words
inside angle brackets. Apparently Mozilla? It's doing weird things to
the whitespace when you quote.
Filipus Klutiero chea...@gmail.com writes:
I
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes:
For what it's worth, Russ's text already seems clear to me. If relaxing
the requirement by allowing use of some mechanism other than execve to
run these commands is desirable, something like the following might do.
Support the command-line
Le 2011-12-25 03:28, Russ Allbery a écrit :
There's some mail client that seems to mangle messages that contain words
inside angle brackets. Apparently Mozilla? It's doing weird things to
the whitespace when you quote.
Hum, Icedove may be doing that indeed... sorry.
Filipus
Hi Jonathan,
Le 2011-12-25 03:52, Jonathan Nieder a écrit :
Filipus Klutiero wrote:
Le 2011-12-24 19:16, Russ Allbery a écrit :
x-terminal-emulator -e vi 'some file'
and know that it works. If you don't use exec, it won't.
I don't see why exec would be necessary. As long as the
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 01:49:05PM -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
But that matters for interoperability. The point of this section is to be
able to issue the command:
x-terminal-emulator -e vi 'some file'
and know that it works. If you don't use exec, it won't.
I don't see why exec
Filipus Klutiero chea...@gmail.com writes:
Section 11.8.3 Packages providing a terminal emulator contains:
To be an x-terminal-emulator, a program must:
Support the command-line option -e command, which creates a new
terminal window[94
Le 2011-12-24 14:16, Russ Allbery a écrit :
Filipus Klutierochea...@gmail.com writes:
Section 11.8.3 Packages providing a terminal emulator contains:
To be an x-terminal-emulator, a program must:
Support the command-line option -e command, which creates a new
terminal
Filipus Klutiero chea...@gmail.com writes:
Regarding the formulation, your suggestion does fix the issue Hendrik
identified. I would still remind that the term command is ambiguous
(you must be referring to simple commands here).
I'm not sure how else to word it. I tried to resolve that
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Section 11.8.3 Packages providing a terminal emulator contains:
To be an x-terminal-emulator, a program must:
*
[...]
*
Support the command-line option -e command, which creates a new
terminal window[94
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