On 11/28/2010 06:22 AM, Aurélien Aptel wrote: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Joseph Xu <joseph...@gmail.com> wrote: >> came up with. It relies on the shell that executes st to parse the >> arguments, so you can't run a command like st -e "touch arst", you have >> to run st -e touch arst. This also means you can't have any st arguments >> after the -e because they'll all be included in the command to run. > > This breaks argument parsing. Why would you want to do that? > Josh's solution is better imo. I've pushed (a slight variation of) it to tip.
Not sure what you mean by breaking argument parsing. I think it's the simplest way to parse a command with complex quoted arguments correctly without having to run an extra shell process.
