kitty with -d doesnt like folders with a name like "v1"

[HowardsPlayPen]

I am on arch and I believe I have an up to date kitty (0.41.1) The following feels like an unintended feature - but apologies if not.

I was working to spawn a new kitty and specify the working directory using a command like this:

kitty -d="/data/folder1/folder2/folder3/tailwindv3" --detach

but it did nothing except show the version number of Kitty. When trying higher level folders it worked fine, eg /data/folder1/folder2/folder3

it turns out it doesnt like something in the /**v3 as even this simpler example gave the same response

Note: just to show how it normally works (when it does work) - i.e. it happily spawns a new terminal in the right folder

here there is no output - but a bright new terminal has appeared..

[alex-huff]

More generally, with short arguments if there contains a v anywhere in the argument the version is printed.

[kovidgoyal]

That's incorrect syntax. = is only used with long options. With short
options you must use space.

kitty -d v

is the same as

kitty --directory=v

kitty -d=v3 is the same as

kitty -d -= -v -3

in this case the presence of the -v causes command line processing to
abort early.

That said I should probably detect use of = in short options and print a
better error message.

[kovidgoyal]

Actually. kitty does support the -d=whatever form or at least it did in older versions, fixed.