On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Carsten Mattner
I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, but shellPrompt uses "spawn" so should not have issues with extra arguments. I do see an issue where completion would break if an executable has a space in its name, but that shouldn't affect running it if you have your quoting correct.
Unsuccessfully tried the following "xterm -e mc" "/usr/bin/xterm -e mc" 'xterm -e mc' '/usr/bin/xterm -e mc'
That wasn't what I was talking about, and you should probably forget I mentioned it since you're only likely to see the case I was talking about on OS X. All of the above *will* fail: there is no executable called "/usr/bin/xterm -e mc" with spaces in the actual filename, hopefully. Could you show your actual code? -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net