[Surfraw-devel] quoting, more changes

Ian Beckwith ianb@nessie.mcc.ac.uk
Thu, 5 Feb 2004 01:11:17 +0000


Hi all.

I've fixed the behaviour of quoting.

Problem:

It would be nice to be able to do (eg)

google swans "god damn the sun" lyrics

but surfraw eats the quotes before passing them to google.  You can
use -q to quote the whole string, or backslash the quotes, but thats a
pain.

Solution:

For each arg, if it contains a character from IFS (ie it was
originally quoted), add double quotes round it.

It seems to work ok but could do with more testing.

I also made a bunch of small changes:

  * Makefile.am: Added missing files to EXTRA_DIST
  * Added a debconf note (only visible if upgrading from 2.0-1)
    explaining the elvi have moved again.
  * configure.in: changed to new AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE format,
    specified minimum automake version 1.7
  * updated surfraw.lsm with new URLs

Ian.

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