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Re: Shell argument splitting behaviour

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Shell argument splitting behaviour
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 14:56:14 +0100
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On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:02:02 +0100
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> What I was trying to do was use this to get lisp-like lists of
> arguments (since after the first word parentheses have to be balanced),
> but I can get that to work just by putting a dummy word in front, so
> it's actually not a major concern.

In case there's any interest, here's what I came up with for my own use.
The list-word function handle list-style trees showing what can follow what.
It's essentially yet another way of doing argument handling, optimised for
another different case.  The _dynamic_directory_name for my own use shows
roughly how to use this; it completes colon-separated parts as in
~[p1:u:main].

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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