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From: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `gud-common-init'
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:37:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200412151737.58467.pogonyshev@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16831.47330.524448.126633@farnswood.snap.net.nz>


>  > As far as I can tell, `gud-common-init' does not try to handle
>  > command lines like this:
>  >
>  > 	--option "enquoted argument with spaces"
>  >
>  > If it does, there must be a bug that prevents the above command
>  > line from being parsed into arguments correctly.
>  >
>  > Is this behaviour not seemed desirable?  Maybe it should be
>  > implemented?  (I'm willing to have a try.)
>
> Can you give real example of where this would be needed other than a file
> which has spaces in its name. I think that we previously decided not to
> encourage this practice.

Actually I tried to debug `etags' with command line

	etags --language none --regex '/^Pattern[ \t]+[a-zA-Z0-9]+/' ...

I agree it's not something you need every day, but it came out as a big
surprise for me when I saw how this command line was passed to `etags'.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-15 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-15  3:01 `gud-common-init' Paul Pogonyshev
2004-12-15  4:09 ` `gud-common-init' Nick Roberts
2004-12-15 15:37   ` Paul Pogonyshev [this message]
2004-12-15 20:28     ` `gud-common-init' Nick Roberts
2004-12-15 20:48       ` `gud-common-init' Paul Pogonyshev
2004-12-15 22:26         ` `gud-common-init' Nick Roberts
2004-12-16 23:02   ` `gud-common-init' Stefan Monnier
2004-12-16 23:27     ` `gud-common-init' Nick Roberts
2004-12-17 13:51       ` `gud-common-init' Stefan Monnier

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