On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 02:44:56PM -0500, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
> > What shell are you using?
>
> Bash.
>
> > In ksh, if I type:
> >
> > tmux neww 'emacs /usr/s<TAB>
>
> That's questionable behavior, because how would it handle filenames
> containing spaces?
You have to intervene and edit the filename, of course, but so what? It
works in the majority of cases which are without spaces.
>
> > An alternative would be to write a little shell function to translate:
> >
> > tmux_neww() {
> > tmux neww "$*"
> > }
>
> This still suffers from the same problem...trying to preserve
> whitespace through multiple levels of quoting is challenging, at best.
I can't say I've ever had any problems but if you say so.
> Better if tmux would simple accept a tokenized command line from the
> shell.
Someone suggested treating the rest of the command line as one argument
if -- is encountered, I'd be happy with that.
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