I have been trying to use run (current version 1.3.3-1) to launch emacsclient-w32 from the desktop via SendTo without having a console-window pop up. It does work, but I have found two problems that prevent this from working in certain cases: 1) Unicode text arguments: If I pass arguments to run with non-ANSI text (German Umlaute in my case), they arrive at the called program (in my case emacsclient-w32) garbled. 2) Empty args: There ARE cases where we want to do this, e.g. pass the -a "" option to emacsclient, but this does not work even with the --quote option to run - the empty arg is silently "swallowed". To illustrate the problem, consider the following command-line, which passes an empty arg and one containing an Umlaut (hope it shows up properly!): run --run-verbose --run-debug=1 --quote bash -c 'exec >tmp; echo $#; echo "$0" "$@"' a b c d "" ä 2>&1 | cat See attachment 1 for what it gives on my system and what I think it should show - and actually does with some small changes I hacked up. For the sake of completeness I also attach output of cygcheck -svr. The changes I propose are contained in the attachment 3, which was created by running "cygport run package" (after modification and compilation, of course). Apart from fixing the 2 problems above I also updated the man-page, borrowing from the run2 man-page. I did not touch NEWS, ChangeLog, etc. though. I hope this change can be adopted by the kind maintainers:-) My testing showed some other issues I do not consider urgent, but are worth mentioning: 1) run DOES handle symlinks, but only if one passes the program-name with an absolute path or the symlink has a name with the right suffix (e.g. .exe) - which unfortunately is not the case with the symlinks provided (e.g. for emacs and emacsclient) via the alternatives system. This would require fixing the symlinks in packages using alternatives - or fixing run to process the program-name in the same way as the spawn/exec family of functions. 2) run does not execute scripts as of now - on the other hand since the exec/spawn functions do so, it should in principle be possible to layer run on an extended form of those functions. That would really simplify creating desktop-shortcuts by placing all complexity in a shell-script and using the runprogram mechanism to call it - rather than packing a complex command-line (typically using bash) into the shortcut. Regards, Martin
Current:
$ run --run-verbose --run-debug=1 --quote bash -c 'exec >tmp; echo $#; echo "$0" "$@"' a b c d "" ä 2>&1 | cat run DEBUG: opt_loglevel: 7 run DEBUG: opt_nogui : 0 run DEBUG: opt_notty : 0 run DEBUG: opt_wait : 0 run DEBUG: opt_quote : 1 run DEBUG: PATH: .:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/All Users/Anwendungsdaten/Oracle/Java/javapath:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/opt/Gemeinsame Dateien/Roxio Shared/DLLShared:/opt/Depicus:/opt/Aquila Technology/WakeOnLAN:/opt/Gemeinsame Dateien/HP/Digital Imaging/bin:/opt/HP/Digital Imaging/bin:/opt/HP/Digital Imaging/bin/Qt/Qt 4.3.3:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/opt/Sysinternals run DEBUG: exec_tmp /usr/bin/bash.exe pathlist .:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/All Users/Anwendungsdaten/Oracle/Java/javapath:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/opt/Gemeinsame Dateien/Roxio Shared/DLLShared:/opt/Depicus:/opt/Aquila Technology/WakeOnLAN:/opt/Gemeinsame Dateien/HP/Digital Imaging/bin:/opt/HP/Digital Imaging/bin:/opt/HP/Digital Imaging/bin/Qt/Qt 4.3.3:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/opt/Sysinternals run DEBUG: /usr/bin/bash.exe run DEBUG: exec C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe execname bash execpath /usr/bin run DEBUG: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c "exec >tmp; echo $#; echo \"$0\" \"$@\"" a b c d ä run DEBUG: Launch non-GUI target run Info: Exiting with status 0 $ cat tmp 4 a b c d ä $ Expected: $ run --run-verbose --run-debug=1 --quote bash -c 'exec >tmp; echo $#; echo "$0" "$@"' a b c d "" ä 2>&1 | cat run DEBUG: opt_loglevel: 7 run DEBUG: opt_nogui : 0 run DEBUG: opt_notty : 0 run DEBUG: opt_wait : 0 run DEBUG: opt_quote : 1 run DEBUG: PATH: .:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/All Users/Anwendungsdaten/Oracle/Java/javapath:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/opt/Gemeinsame Dateien/Teleca Shared:/opt/7-Zip:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/opt/Sysinternals:/opt/GNU/bin:/cygdrive/c/Cygwin/usr/local/bin:/cygdrive/c/Cygwin/bin:/cygdrive/c/Cygwin/usr/sbin:/opt/MediaInfo_CLI:/opt/SMPlayer:/opt/SMPlayer/mplayer:/opt/FLAC:/opt/Kathrein:/opt/MPEG2Schnitt:/opt/Project-X:/opt/Comskip:/opt/MediathekView:/opt/AutoIt3:/opt/Depicus:/opt/Aquila Technology/WakeOnLAN:/opt/Gemeinsame Dateien/HP/Digital Imaging/bin:/opt/HP/Digital Imaging/bin:/opt/HP/Digital Imaging/bin/Qt/Qt 4.3.3:/opt/QuickTime/QTSystem:/opt/Skype/Phone:/opt/FileVerifier++ run DEBUG: exec_tmp /usr/bin/bash.exe pathlist .:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/All Users/Anwendungsdaten/Oracle/Java/javapath:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/opt/Gemeinsame Dateien/Teleca Shared:/opt/7-Zip:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/opt/Sysinternals:/opt/GNU/bin:/cygdrive/c/Cygwin/usr/local/bin:/cygdrive/c/Cygwin/bin:/cygdrive/c/Cygwin/usr/sbin:/opt/MediaInfo_CLI:/opt/SMPlayer:/opt/SMPlayer/mplayer:/opt/FLAC:/opt/Kathrein:/opt/MPEG2Schnitt:/opt/Project-X:/opt/Comskip:/opt/MediathekView:/opt/AutoIt3:/opt/Depicus:/opt/Aquila Technology/WakeOnLAN:/opt/Gemeinsame Dateien/HP/Digital Imaging/bin:/opt/HP/Digital Imaging/bin:/opt/HP/Digital Imaging/bin/Qt/Qt 4.3.3:/opt/QuickTime/QTSystem:/opt/Skype/Phone:/opt/FileVerifier++ run DEBUG: /usr/bin/bash.exe run DEBUG: exec C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe execname bash execpath /usr/bin run DEBUG: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c "exec >tmp; echo $#; echo \"$0\" \"$@\"" a b c d "" ä run DEBUG: Launch non-GUI target run DEBUG: converted command-line: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c "exec >tmp; echo $#; echo \"$0\" \"$@\"" a b c d "" ä, length 79, size 81 run Info: Exiting with status 0 Martin@MartinsDell ~ $ cat tmp 5 a b c d ä Martin@MartinsDell ~ $
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