mate-terminal manual is missing description of the "-x" option #126

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epgfm opened this Issue Jul 14, 2016 · 3 comments

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epgfm commented Jul 14, 2016

In the "Terminal options" category, only "-e" flag has documentation.
Correct me if I'm wrong, "-x" differs from "-e" where subsequent arguments need not be quoted.
Is this because "-x" is deprecated and shouldn't be used?

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monsta commented Jul 15, 2016

I looked at manpage of gnome-terminal in Debian (for some reason it's not provided upstream) and at the code too... so they still have the "-x" option, just like we do, and it's mentioned in the manpage. I think it won't hurt to add it to our manpage as well.

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monsta commented Jul 15, 2016

Correct me if I'm wrong, "-x" differs from "-e" where subsequent arguments need not be quoted.

Indeed, this seems to be the only difference.

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monsta commented Jul 15, 2016

Done, entry added to the manpage.

monsta added a commit that referenced this issue Aug 12, 2016

man: add missing description of -x / --execute command line option
taken straight from the manpage of gnome-terminal in Debian

fixes #126
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