<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Carsten Mattner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carstenmattner@gmail.com" target="_blank">carstenmattner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, but shellPrompt uses "spawn" so<br>
> should not have issues with extra arguments. I do see an issue where<br>
> completion would break if an executable has a space in its name, but that<br>
> shouldn't affect running it if you have your quoting correct.<br>
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</div>Unsuccessfully tried the following<br>
"xterm -e mc"<br>
"/usr/bin/xterm -e mc"<br>
'xterm -e mc'<br>
'/usr/bin/xterm -e mc'<br>
</blockquote></div><br>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.<br clear="all">
<div><br></div><div>Could you show your actual code?</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div>
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