[plt-dev] searching for bitmap% via f1 on mac os x

Yes, I have tcsh. Probably a red herring, then.

Robby

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Feb 28, Robby Findler wrote:
>> When I searched for bitmap% by putting my mouse on the word and
>> hitting f1 in drscheme, I got this:
>>
>> browser-run: process execute failed: (#<path:/usr/bin/osascript> "-e"
>> "open location \"file:///Users/robby/Library/PLT%20Scheme/4.1.4.3/doc/search/index.html?q=bitmap%25\"")
>>
>> My shell reports
>>
>>   Unmatched ".
>>
>> when I just try those arguments.  When I try this commandline it
>> works great:
>>
>> osascript -e 'open location
>> "file:///Users/robby/Library/PLT%20Scheme/4.1.4.3/doc/search/index.html?q=bitmap%25"'
>
> Weird.  After trying some things, I think that:
>
> * The `unmatched' error that you get when you run it in your shell is
>  probably because you're using tcsh (which is, IIRC, the default on
>  OSX).  You probably get the same result for
>
>    echo "foo \"bar\" foo"
>
>  [And BTW, tcsh is a terrible choice for a shell, as I was reminded
>  by googling for "tcsh quotes" which got me quickly to
>  http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/CshTop10.txt -- with enough hair that
>  should make you scream in horror.]
>
>  [I usually recommend zsh these days, but even bash is better if you
>  want to use your shell in any way that is an epsilon above complete
>  naive things.]
>
> * The second one worked fine, because happens to mean what you think
>  it does in tcsh.  (As well as in other shells.)
>
> * If the above is correct, then the "process execute failed" is due to
>  some other problem (it doesn't use a shell on OSX).  (And I don't
>  have a clue what it might be.)  Probably similar to the problem that
>  Matthias had a while ago.
>
> * And BTW, if you grep that thread, you'll see that we went through
>  the same story...
>
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