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Bug#874019: Note that the '-e' argument to x-terminal-emulator works like '--'



Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.1.0.0
User: debian-policy@packages.debian.org
Usertags: informative proposal
X-debbugs-cc: Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de>

A suggestion from mirabilos:

On Thu, Aug 24 2017, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> OK, enough yak shaving and back to your original question. Yes, this
> is correct, although the wording could probably be improved to deal
> with arguments after -e that begin with a hyphen-minus.
>
> “xterm -e foo bar -T baz blah” will call “foo bar -T baz blah”, so
> the -e works like an implicit -- there.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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