Re: [vile] Disappearing quotes in macro parameters

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, J?~Anis R??cis wrote:

> Generally, whenever a value begins with a quote, it's handled in a
> strange way.

yes - quotes in vile are not as nice as I'd like.

This might help - at least to focus discussion:

"Anything" that would prompt from a string will do that either directly 
from the keyboard, or by calling a function that takes the next token from 
a buffer containing possibly more than one token.  For consistency, that 
token's quotes are removed, and the commands which read (via kbd_reply, 
etc), do not expect quotes.

In your example, the quotes are removed to deliver the parameters to the 
low-level commands (which do not expect quotes).  vile stores data in 
[History] with quotes (as needed...), and reconstructs/dequotes values 
that it retrieves from [History] as part of a prompt.  The 
expression-evaluation can read quoted strings, but also assumes that its 
output will be acceptable to the commands, which do not expect quotes.

With all of that, there're occasional inconsistencies (bugs).  I don't 
_see_ any obvious ones in your example.

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