Issues with :sh

[abrassel]

I'm following https://yazi-rs.github.io/docs/tips/#helix-with-zellij to open yazi in helix, but I'm getting the following error:

y = ":sh zellij run -c -f -x 10% -y 10% --width 80% --height 80% -- bash ~/.config/helix/yazi-picker.sh open"

(with nushell)

results in:

`run-shell-command`: unknown variable: `-y`

note: this command works when manually run from the command line. is there some kind of parsing issue?

[david-crespo]

You might have to escape those percents with \%. Are you on latest master after #12527 rewrote all the command parsing?

See https://docs.helix-editor.com/master/command-line.html

[abrassel]

it does seem like an escaping issue, but when i wrote % instead, i got an "invalidescapesequence" error. This is from latest master build.

[abrassel]

y = ":sh zellij run -c -f -x '10%' -y '10%' --width '80%' --height '80%' -- bash ~/.config/helix/yazi-picker.sh open"

[abrassel]

(there are escapes, but they got eaten by markdown formatting)

[david-crespo]

Sorry, I misread this in the docs:

The backslash may also be used to escape quote characters (', `, ") or the percent token (%) when used at the beginning of an argument. :echo \%%sh{foo} for example prints %sh{foo} instead of invoking a foo shell command

The relevant line was actually this:

To escape a percent character instead of treating it as an expansion, use two percent characters consecutively

This works for me:

:sh echo hello 10%%

[abrassel]

yeah - that worked for me :)

Is there an easy way to file a feature request to improve the error messaging?

[david-crespo]

You could just change the title of this issue and update the description.