NNN_TMPFILE including cd command is overly complicated?

[stelcodes]

I'm wondering why NNN_TMPFILE is written as a full cd '/some-dir' cd command when it seems like it would be better and simpler to just write /some-dir as the file contents. That way you wouldn't have to source that file from your shell, you could just do something like cd "$(<$NNN_TMPFILE)". Is it because it's hard to get the shell quoting right if the directory name includes quotes? Big fan of nnn. Cheers!

[N-R-K]

I don't know why it was done this way. But it's kept this way so we don't break existing user's configs.

Is it because it's hard to get the shell quoting right if the directory name includes quotes?

I don't think shell quoting would matter in the cd "$(cat "$NNN_TMPFILE")" case.