No way to escape placeholders in forwardSearch.args

[eburghar]

okular also use %f, %l for the inverse search command, and it has the possibility to configure the editor from the command line with the --editor-cmd argument.

But this is not working

{
  "texlab.forwardSearch.executable": "okular",
  "texlab.forwardSearch.args": ["--editor-cmd": "\"code -g \"%f\":%l\"", "--unique", "file:%p#src:%l%f"]
}

We can enclose an argument with " to prevent placeholders replacement but as the leading and trailing " are not removed from the argument, okular fails to launch the command.

A % would be preferable to escape %. I have a PR that permits this. Tell me if this makes sense.

{
  "texlab.forwardSearch.executable": "okular",
  "texlab.forwardSearch.args": ["--editor-cmd": "code -g \"%%f\":%%l", "--unique", "file:%p#src:%l%f"]
}

[pfoerster]

Thanks for the report.

A % would be preferable to escape %.

I agree. The current replacing strategy cannot really handle this case so an escape character still lets the old configurations work while fixing this issue.

I have a PR that permits this. Tell me if this makes sense.

Sure! Thanks for contributing 👍

[pfoerster]

Released with texlab 4.2.0