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 VT100 terminal, or a compatible
| terminal.
| * Support the command-line option `-e <command>', which creates a
| new terminal window[1] and runs the specified <command>,
| interpreting the entirety of the rest of the command line as a
| command to pass straight to exec, in the manner that `xterm'
| does.
| * Support the command-line option `-T <title>', which creates a new
| terminal window with the window title <title>.
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 arguments passed after "-e" form the argument list to the
| executed program. In other words, the behavior is as though
| the arguments were passed directly to execvp, bypassing the
| shell. (xterm's behavior of falling back on using the shell if
| -e had a single argument and exec failed is permissible but not
| required.)
Does that look like a good change to you? (If so, you may second it.)
Any ideas for improving it? (Improvements welcome.)
Thanks,
Jonathan
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