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@@ -164,3 +164,18 @@ exit (elinks, for some strange reason, sets it to the value of TERM): STY= `which elinks` $* echo -ne \\033]0\;\\007; } + +* What's the proper way to escape characters with #(command)? + +When using the character pair #(command), the command will be parsed twice. +First when it's read by the configuration file, or the command-prompt parser, +and another right before the command is passed to the shell by popen(3). As an +example, to echo the string (test) to the status line, one could use single, +or double-quotes (the meaning is the same as if in the shell): + + set -g status-right "#(echo \\\\(test\\\\))" + set -g status-right '#(echo \\\(test\\\))' + +With the double-quotes, the string when is first parsed will be set to +#(echo \\(test\\)), and then again parsed as echo \(test\) before passing the +command to sh -c. |