On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 01:21:39AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-10-27 18:34:11 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > The documentation is correct; there is an error in your report. > > The rules for X resource syntax are different from your expectation. > > This is an empty string: > > > > *printerCommand: > > > > This is the two double-quote characters (literally): > > > > *printerCommand: "" > > It is a bit strange because the " is a special character: > > $ echo '*printerCommand: "' | xrdb -merge > <stdin>:1:18: warning: missing terminating " character [enabled by default] The warning is coming from xrdb (or the C preprocessor). It's not coming from xterm or the X libraries. I would have expected somthing like this: $ echo '*printerCommand: ' | xrdb -merge By the way, the resource is actually set in this instance to a blank, but xterm trims leading/trailing blanks (to reduce user confusion). The absence of quoting, and limited escapes are something I can't fix inside xterm. > Now, concerning the bug, with the empty string, there are indeed > no effects. But I don't think that xterm should terminate when > there is a problem with the printer command. true - but the severity level is "normal" (a problem exposed by an unusual configuration - not the default as was stated). I'll investigate to see what the internals are - -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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