Issue 1622: Support literal % in command lines. - Darcs bug tracker

Title	Support literal % in command lines.
Priority	wishlist	Status	given-up
Milestone		Resolved in
Superseder		Nosy List	darcs-devel, dmitry.kurochkin, kowey, twb
Assigned To		Topics

Created on 2009-09-21.03:00:24 by twb, last changed 2017-07-30.23:20:26 by gh.

Messages
msg8846 (view)	Author: twb	Date: 2009-09-21.03:00:22
While investigating issue1066, I found that there is no way to have a literal % in --diff-command, e.g. darcs diff --diff-command 'printf %%s\\n %1 %2' I guess this can be fixed by extending the ftable in CommandLine.commandline with ('%',"%").
msg8847 (view)	Author: twb	Date: 2009-09-21.03:06:33
I meant issue1606, not issue1066.
msg8848 (view)	Author: kowey	Date: 2009-09-21.07:03:21
Backslash %?
msg8849 (view)	Author: twb	Date: 2009-09-21.08:09:58
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 07:03:24AM +0000, Eric Kow wrote: > Backslash %? I thought I tried that. $ darcs diff --diff-command 'printf \%\\\\n %1 %2' darcs failed: (line 1, column 9): unexpected "\\" expecting "%<"
msg8858 (view)	Author: kowey	Date: 2009-09-21.22:09:18
OK: guess we just need a patch

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2009-09-21 03:00:24	twb	create
2009-09-21 03:06:36	twb	set	nosy: darcs-devel, twb, dmitry.kurochkin messages: + msg8847
2009-09-21 07:03:24	kowey	set	nosy: + kowey messages: + msg8848
2009-09-21 08:10:00	twb	set	nosy: kowey, darcs-devel, twb, dmitry.kurochkin messages: + msg8849
2009-09-21 22:09:22	kowey	set	priority: wishlist status: unknown -> needs-implementation messages: + msg8858 nosy: kowey, darcs-devel, twb, dmitry.kurochkin
2017-07-30 23:20:26	gh	set	status: needs-implementation -> given-up