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