The tmux TODO list has this item: * use "--" to mark start of command w/ neww etc to avoid quoting
I'm a little confused about this, so I'm hoping to get some clarification. In this email: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.terminal-emulators.tmux.user/5432 ...the user gets a usage error with the example command "tmux new-session -- true --zupa --sometest" and he seems to think that he's getting the usage error because tmux or new-session is seeing "--zupa" and "--sometest" as invalid flags. He wants tmux to be modified so the "--" separates his command's flags from those of new-session. Does this match the intended purpose of the TODO item? If not, then could you give some more detail on what is wanted? If this does match the intended purpose, then I think the problem has been misdiagnosed. The usage error that the user got doesn't appear to be because of his flags being interpreted by new-session, but because, by not putting them in quotes, he was passing 3 args to new-session, and new-session has args_upper set to 1. If the goal is to get new-session to take more than 1 arg so that commands don't need to be quoted, isn't using "--" the wrong way to go? I thought getopt consumes "--", so that cmd_new_session_exec() would never see it, and so couldn't alter its behavior. Wouldn't you have to modify getopt() or args_parse() to pass "--" along to new-session? If that's not desirable, then new-session could be modified to not need quotes by default, but this would break any existing scripts people have. Alternatively, a different flag (-m for multi-arg?) could be used to signal that the command args aren't quoted. Do you care for either of those options? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
