#381 ctrl-k / piping breaks when command contains // character sequence
Forwarding from the Debian bug tracking system: http://bugs.debian.org/877734
From: Matija Nalis
When piping text block through external command (via ctrl-k /), joe breaks
if external command parameters contains two consecutive slashes.
For example, piping (ctrl-k /) block through:
sed -e 's/foo/bar/'
work normally, as does replacing by space:
sed -e 's/foo/ /'
but piping it through:
sed -e 's/foo//'
(to delete string 'foo')
fails with "/bin/sh: 1: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string"
It also does weird syntax-coloring in "Command to filter file through"
prompt, showing all of command but last slash and apostrophe in green.
Also when recalling command next time with up-arrow, it shows only slash
and apostrophe instead of whole command!
The problem arises after upgrading from jessie to stretch - the joe in
jessie and before was working normally.
Yeah, so I tried copying the emacs feature where you can begin a new path by typing //. I think I will eliminate this feature because I've found many cases where you want to paste in a path that contains // and JOE can't open the file (some compilers included // in the middle of a path). It also causes the problem you mention.
This is now fixed in Mercurial.
I kept the path restart (//) feature, but now suppress it for commands.