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:
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>> 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?
>>
>>