Quoting in yaml

[imholzj]

Quoting in the yaml file is a little tricky. The following does not work:

windows:

• name: "railsprod"
  root: ~
  layout: even-vertical
  panes:
  • ssh server -t 'cd /var/log/rails; bash --login'
  • ssh server -t 'cd /var/rails_apps; bash --login'

If I double quote the ssh command parameter it does work (so I'm good.) But for kicks, I ran this yaml through yamllint.com (I don't know if this is a good resource or not) and got:

windows:

• name: "railsprod"
  root: ~
  layout: even-vertical
  panes:
  • "ssh server -t 'cd /var/log/rails; bash --login'"
  • "ssh server -t 'cd /var/rails_apps; bash --login'"

and teamocil doesn't like that quoting either.

[ivanterrible]

recently ran into this issue, if you run teamocil --debug [name of layout] you will see that teamocil wraps single quote around the entire string so using single quotes inside your command mangles the output string resulting in an invalid command. When you need to use single quotes you have to do similar to the following.

 panes:
    - tmux set-hook -p pane-focus-in "if-shell -F '"'"'#{window_zoomed_flag}'"'"' '"'"''"'"' '"'"'resize-pane -Z'"'"'"

in place of

panes:
    - tmux set-hook -p pane-focus-in "if-shell -F '#{window_zoomed_flag}' '' 'resize-pane -Z'"

So any single quotes would then need to be replaced by '"'"'.