From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Yuri Shtil" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: perldb does not process arguments with embedded spaces Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 10:33:43 -0700 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <000e01c1dfec$b26146c0$b17ba8c0@PLAY> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_000B_01C1DFB2.05D78E30" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018373779 13549 127.0.0.1 (9 Apr 2002 17:36:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 17:36:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16uzXW-0003WJ-00 for ; Tue, 09 Apr 2002 19:36:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16uzXO-0005rh-00; Tue, 09 Apr 2002 13:36:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rwcrmhc54.attbi.com ([216.148.227.87]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16uzV5-0005ky-00 for ; Tue, 09 Apr 2002 13:33:48 -0400 Original-Received: from PLAY ([12.235.101.203]) by rwcrmhc54.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020409173346.IEYC15826.rwcrmhc54.attbi.com@PLAY> for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 17:33:46 +0000 Original-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:523 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:523 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C1DFB2.05D78E30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2001-12-25 on C938451-A configured using `configure --with-gcc (2.95)' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: ENU locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: >From what I understand perldb must process the command line arguments = passed to the script being debugged in a shell-like manner. I found this = not to be the case. I was trying to pass an argument with embedded white = space by quoting ior escaping it. Nothing seems to work. If you try M-x perldb RET and supply "a b" as an argument, then the @ARGV contains two elements: = "a and b" . -------------------------------------------------------------- Sincerely Yuri Shtil ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C1DFB2.05D78E30 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
In GNU Emacs 21.1.1=20 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2001-12-25 on = C938451-A
configured using=20 `configure --with-gcc (2.95)'
Important settings:
  value of = $LC_ALL:=20 nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE:=20 nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of = $LC_MONETARY:=20 nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME:=20 nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  locale-coding-system:=20 iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: = t
Please describe exactly what actions = triggered the=20 bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:
 
From what I understand perldb must = process the=20 command line arguments passed to the script being debugged in a = shell-like=20 manner. I found this not to be the case. I was trying to pass an = argument with=20 embedded white space by quoting ior escaping it. Nothing seems to=20 work.
 
If you try M-x = perldb RET
and supply "a b" as an argument, = then the=20 @ARGV contains two elements: "a and b" .
 
--------------------------------------------------------------Sincerely
 
          Yuri=20 Shtil
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