From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2967C352-8607-44E6-87FA-DB94B18688DC@icloud.com> References: <2967C352-8607-44E6-87FA-DB94B18688DC@icloud.com> From: Alexander Kapshuk Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:54:22 +0300 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme 2-1 chord arguments Topicbox-Message-UUID: 610c55ec-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Brian Zwahr wrote: > According to the man page, using the 2-1 chord sends selected text as a *= distinct* argument to the executed command. This is all well and good for E= dit, Look, etc. However, it keeps me from being able to, for instance, sele= ct =E2=80=9Ccheckout .=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Cpull =E2=80=94prune=E2=80=9D an= d then 2-1 on =E2=80=9Cgit=E2=80=9D. So, two questions: > > 1.) Is there a way to do what I=E2=80=99m trying to do? > > 2.) What was the reasoning behind 2-1 chording sending distinct arguments= ? > > Have you tried typing git into the win tag and typing and selecting the subsequent arguments in another window, passing them to git via the 2-1 chord? I've just tried doing that with 'git pull', and 'ls -ld .', both commands working as expected for me. Is this what you've been trying to do, or am I thinking wrong here?