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On 2016-08-31 18:11, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 02:25:49PM -0400, Troy Sankey wrote:
>> I understand why this happens:
>> 
>>   % khal --help
>>   Usage: .khal-real [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
>>   [...]
>> 
>> but I think it sorta sucks for user experience.  Just thought I'd 
>> point this
>> out, and I was wondering if there were any ideas to address this.
>> 
>> Specifically, argv[0] references the name of the "real" executable, 
>> rather than
>> the guix wrapper.  This is almost always benign, but it looks ugly in 
>> help
>> menus.
> 
> I wonder if the Khal author (Christian) intends for users to rename the
> executable. Otherwise, why use argv[0]? Is it some side-effect of a
> documentation tool used by Khal?
> 
> I would understand if khal and ikhal were the same executable, and
> behavior was changed based on argv[0], but that's not the case.
> 
> It does look ugly.

It's not just khal.  Most other executables and scripts that reference 
argv[0] or $0 end up with the *=real string.

In our wrapper scripts, we pass -a to exec, which is supposed to address 
this issue, but for some reason it seems ineffective.

`~Eric
-- 
`~Eric