zellij pipe command (at least) try to parse in its <PAYLOAD> part (after --)

[Zykino]

2. Issues with the Zellij UI / behavior / crash

Issue description

Getting an error that zellij pipe does not understand an argument (that star with a "/") while it should not parse the arguments anymore since we are after the -- separator (into the PAYLOAD section).

Minimal reproduction

Doing zellij pipe --plugin zc -- edit /foo 38 (with zc an alias to a local file pointing to my zellij-console plugin build) result in the following message:

error: Found argument '/foo' which wasn't expected, or isn't valid in this context

USAGE:

zellij pipe [OPTIONS] [--]

• Send data to a specific plugin:

zellij pipe --plugin file:/path/to/my/plugin.wasm --name my_pipe_name -- my_arbitrary_data

• To all running plugins (that are listening):

zellij pipe --name my_pipe_name -- my_arbitrary_data

• Pipe data into this command's STDIN and get output from the plugin on this command's STDOUT

tail -f /tmp/my-live-logfile | zellij pipe --name logs --plugin https://example.com/my-plugin.wasm | wc -l

For more information try --help

Other relevant information

There are multiples workaround:

• Put the command inside quotes (simple ' or double ")
• Use stdin: echo edit /foo 38 | zellij pipe --plugin zc
• For plugin authors, accept an argument like: zellij pipe --plugin zc --args="command=edit /foo 38" (kind of the same workaround as the previous one since I’m forced to quote because I have some spaces).

The workarounds works… but ain’t as easy to use. I don’t want to quote the commands since I want the shell to help with auto-completing path among other things. The echo … | … syntax feels a bit heavy and don’t makes for easy to write shell alias like zc <my-command>.