[xmonad] shellPrompt exec with args

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Carsten Mattner
<carstenmattner at gmail.com>wrote:

> > I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, but shellPrompt uses "spawn" so
> > should not have issues with extra arguments.  I do see an issue where
> > completion would break if an executable has a space in its name, but that
> > shouldn't affect running it if you have your quoting correct.
>
> Unsuccessfully tried the following
> "xterm -e mc"
> "/usr/bin/xterm -e mc"
> 'xterm -e mc'
> '/usr/bin/xterm -e mc'
>

That wasn't what I was talking about, and you should probably forget I
mentioned it since you're only likely to see the case I was talking about
on OS X.  All of the above *will* fail:  there is no executable called
"/usr/bin/xterm -e mc" with spaces in the actual filename, hopefully.

Could you show your actual code?

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