Quoting, backslashes, CLI and MI

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

 Daniel> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:42:32PM -0500, Paul Koning wrote:
 >> Daniel,
 >> 
 >> You mentioned tilde expansion in a number of places but didn't
 >> specifically speak of plans to change that.  I would think that
 >> having tilde expansion work at all times whenever file or path
 >> names are processed would be a good thing.

 Daniel> Makes sense to me.  They should probably be left alone in
 Daniel> "set args", though, so the current use of
 Daniel> var_optional_filename would need adjustment.

Agreed, given that "set args" is supposed to treat the entire argument
list as literal without any processing.

(Hm... should there be a flavor of "set args" that does shell-style
expansion of the args list?  That sure would be handy for cases where
I want to debug a program that's being handed a wildcard, or some
similar expanded argument, and I end up having to expand it manually
when inside GDB...)

     paul