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| author | Robin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com> | 2016-06-04 21:01:53 +0200 |
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| committer | Robin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com> | 2016-06-04 21:01:53 +0200 |
| commit | 16e9b0dc459f3ac198495127498b2255eb94c1ce (patch) | |
| tree | 6630ede1ece5782d0d72cffdc466df87386be67e /src/spawn.cpp | |
| parent | dd408c9ae23d37d53e0ca7d3d75e33fdae2efdcb (diff) | |
| download | sciteco-16e9b0dc459f3ac198495127498b2255eb94c1ce.tar.gz | |
added ^E@ string building character
* allows expansion of Q-Register contents with UNIX shell quoting
* This especially improves the usefulness of the EC/EG commands as
we can reliably determine that a TECO string (ie. Q-Register)
will end up as a single argument to the spawned process.
A previous workaround was to enclose ^EQ in quotes, but it does
not work e.g. if the register contains the wrong kind of quotes or
other magic shell characters.
* NOTE: In order to be absolutely sure about the runtime behaviour of
EC plus ^E@, you will have to enable UNIX98 shell emulation in portable
macros.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/spawn.cpp')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/spawn.cpp | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/spawn.cpp b/src/spawn.cpp index 9ea3919..0722180 100644 --- a/src/spawn.cpp +++ b/src/spawn.cpp @@ -209,6 +209,11 @@ parse_shell_command_line(const gchar *cmdline, GError **error) * \(lq0,128ED\(rq, and is recommended when writing cross-platform * macros using the EC command. * + * When using an UNIX-compatible shell or the UNIX98 shell emulation, + * you might want to use the \fB^E@\fP string-building character + * to pass Q-Register contents reliably as single arguments to + * the spawned process. + * * The spawned process inherits both \*(ST's current working * directory and its environment variables. * More precisely, \*(ST uses its environment registers |