Re: Problem with "dashless options"

From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@madism.org>
Date: Sep 9, 2009, 22:49 UTC
Message-ID: <20090909224930.GC29776@artemis.corp>
In-Reply-To: <4EEF55B5-46E1-4C06-AA60-62F700F7B279@isy.liu.se>

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:12:12PM +0200, Henrik Tidefelt wrote:

> No, but it is mapped to WHITE FROWNING FACE; I guess I defined it so
> to avoid the trouble I was previously experiencing from accidentally
> typing the &nbsp; instead of space without being able to see the
> difference on screen.  Why would it matter?

well because then one of your space could have been that, and the shell doesn't consider non breakable space as .. breakable, hence you can read something where you believe there is (n+1) arguments but the shell (and git) see only n.

It often yields errors really hard to grasp like the dreaded:

$ ls | grep zsh: command not found: grep notice the ^

sorry then I don't really know what happened...

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