tbh, my gut reaction was calling it a limitation of the current shell.

On 10/22/13 4:07 PM, Billie Rinaldi wrote:
I tried the hex, but it still interprets it as an option. I'm trying to
decide if this dash issue is actually a bug, or a limitation of the
shell, since it mixes flagged parameters and positional parameters.
Maybe we could look into interpreting hex after the options are parsed,
but I don't recall how that's done offhand.

On Oct 22, 2013 6:14 PM, "Christopher" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    You might be able to specify the dash/minus sign with its hex
    equivalent:

    insert row cf cq \x2D1


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    Christopher L Tubbs II
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    On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:03 AM, David Medinets
    <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
     > I just tried to do this:
     >
     >   insert "row" "cf" "cq" -1
     >
     > The negative sign is being interpreted as an "unrecognized
    option". There
     > does not appear a workaround but perhaps I'm missing something?

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