From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3F739A40-44AE-4E2B-A7CF-7C97F9BC0762@quintile.net> In-Reply-To: <3F739A40-44AE-4E2B-A7CF-7C97F9BC0762@quintile.net> From: Sean Callanan Date: Sat, 6 May 2017 19:09:12 +0000 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a113cdd806e0296054edfbe14 Subject: Re: [9fans] equality sign in Rc Topicbox-Message-UUID: bc9d71fc-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a113cdd806e0296054edfbe14 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 =3D syntax for its intended purpose. Sean On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 6:22 AM Steve Simon wrote: > > i would have expected this to work: > > cc '-DFOO=3Dbar' file.c > > -Steve > > > On 6 May 2017, at 08:43, Sean Callanan wrote: > > > > I can't speak for dexen, but I would love to be able to run > > > > cc -DFOO=3Dbar file.c > > > > or similar commands with button 2 in Acme. What I get instead is > > > > rc: line 2: token '=3D': syntax error > > > > Sean > > > > iPad=E3=81=8B=E3=82=89=E9=80=81=E4=BF=A1 > > > > 2017/05/05 18:53=E3=80=81tty0@teknik.io =E3=81=AE=E3=83=A1=E3=83=83=E3= =82=BB=E3=83=BC=E3=82=B8: > > > >> May 1, 2017 2:30 PM, "dexen deVries" 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? > >> > >> > > > --001a113cdd806e0296054edfbe14 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Sure, and that's the 'quoted equality sign' de= xen was complaining about in the first place.

When you're = hand-writing a command it probably becomes muscle memory pretty quickly, bu= t for people who often copy-paste commands or run them straight out of file= s, I'm sure they've been aggravated by this far more often than the= y've used rc's =3D syntax for its intended purpose.

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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=3Dbar' 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=3Dbar file.c
>
> or similar commands with button 2 in Acme.=C2=A0 What I get instead is=
>
> rc: line 2: token '=3D': syntax error
>
> Sean
>
> iPad=E3=81=8B=E3=82=89=E9=80=81=E4=BF=A1
>
> 2017/05/05 18:53=E3=80=81tty0@teknik.io =E3=81=AE=E3=83=A1=E3=83=83=E3=82=BB=E3=83=BC=E3= =82=B8:
>
>> May 1, 2017 2:30 PM, "dexen deVries" <dexen.devries@gmail.com&g= t; wrote:
>>
>>> does anybody have a version of Rc that allows unquoted equalit= y sign?
>>>
>>> having to quote the character get a bit annoying on POSIX syst= ems (plan9port)
>>
>> I don't, but can you explain in detail what you are doing that= causes an issue?
>>
>>


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