On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:13 AM, dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>wrote:

> your selection lacks the final LF to make Rc happy ;-)
>
> a quick and dirty hack would be to always append LF:
> exec /usr/local/plan9/bin/rc <{9p read acme/$id/rdsel;echo;}
>
> tested with:
> echo foo bar
> rc <{9p read acme/$winid/rdsel; echo; }
>
> selecting bare `echo foo bar' (without LF) gives syntax error; selecting
> whole
> line works a-OK
>

A small variation of this would be to allow for
multiple arguments to Run, following the label,
and to shift the label off the args and pass the
rest to the executing command.

For my own copy of this I read the contents
of rdsel into a separate file and execute it
with any following args (I'm using sh, but I
assume similar functionality is available in
rc).

Jim