Re: new module 'system-quote'

[Paul Eggert]

On 05/10/2012 09:20 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> If I'm not missing anything, I submit that '*' should be removed from
> the list of special characters.  Leaving it there means that it will
> be impossible to invoke programs with arguments that include
> wildcards.

In the context of 'diff' we don't want "*" to be a wildcard;
we want it to be just a literal "*".  In this sense "*"
is just like " " in a file name.