Flags parsing doesn't do "foo bar"

[som-snytt]

The .flags file should allow

-Dscala.repl.prompt="%nevil scala> "

because otherwise it's just evil.

Why are we so terrified of parsing quoted strings? It's the third rail of parsing.

[som-snytt]

I don't remember what I was doing last spring, but #91

Note that SessionTest only supports the standard prompt anyway.

The PR leverages an existing convention that a multiline option file is taken as one element per line without further parsing. The line is not trimmed, but blank lines are dropped.

[SethTisue]

closing old scala-partest issues that seem unlikely to get noticed here now that we've re-in-sourced

[som-snytt]

This would be closed as fixed, in the unlikely event that anyone ever needs this feature in the history of the world, or the scala world.

[hrhino]

That's the other meaning of "unlikely to get noticed", then.

[dwijnand]

scribbles on hand with finger... resolution: fixed

[som-snytt]

draws wistfully in the sand with a piece of driftwood... fixed