On Monday 22 February 2010 17:23:48 Vladimir Prus wrote:

> > > I believe the fact that no known frontends use args was raised the last time,
> > > but you still wanted to assume they exist.
> > 
> > Blech, I hate having to argue with myself.
> > 
> > I suggest asking for a second opinion then.  I don't think this
> > quoting is good enough to be a good idea.  I think we can get away
> > without it for -exec-run.  I don't know about -exec-until.
> 
> Apparently, nobody seem to have a second opinion :-(
> So, unless I hear objections by tomorrow, I will commit a patch that:
> 
> a) make -exec-run refuse to accept any parameters, as no frontend
> that cares is known.
> b) does nothing with -exec-until, since your point about \t seems like
> a killer. I'll fix -exec-until for MI3, whenever that comes around.

Nobody has spoked up, so I've checked in the below.

Thanks,

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Vladimir Prus
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