Sure, and that's the 'quoted equality sign' dexen was complaining about in
the first place.

When you're hand-writing a command it probably becomes muscle memory pretty
quickly, but for people who often copy-paste commands or run them straight
out of files, I'm sure they've been aggravated by this far more often than
they've used rc's = syntax for its intended purpose.

Sean

On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 6:22 AM Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:

>
> i would have expected this to work:
>
> cc '-DFOO=bar' file.c
>
> -Steve
>
> > On 6 May 2017, at 08:43, Sean Callanan <l337.h4x0r@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I can't speak for dexen, but I would love to be able to run
> >
> > cc -DFOO=bar file.c
> >
> > or similar commands with button 2 in Acme.  What I get instead is
> >
> > rc: line 2: token '=': syntax error
> >
> > Sean
> >
> > iPadから送信
> >
> > 2017/05/05 18:53、tty0@teknik.io のメッセージ:
> >
> >> May 1, 2017 2:30 PM, "dexen deVries" <dexen.devries@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> does anybody have a version of Rc that allows unquoted equality sign?
> >>>
> >>> having to quote the character get a bit annoying on POSIX systems
> (plan9port)
> >>
> >> I don't, but can you explain in detail what you are doing that causes
> an issue?
> >>
> >>
>
>
>