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Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:55:34 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>> >> >> I do not understand: what makes you think it could be a properly quoted
>> >> >> shell command?
>> >> > Because you said that working with shell commands was why these
>> >> > functions were invented in the first place. And that is how they are
>> >> > used in Emacs as of now.
>> >> No, they're used to run commands. Without going through a shell.
>> > Then why would one need quoting?
>>
>> Because when you run a command with start-process or call-process, you
>> need to specify a list of strings (each being an argument), but the user
>> usually wants to enter the list within a single minibuffer. So from the
>> string returned by the read-string (or equivalent) function, we need to
>> get a list of strings.
> If I am prompted for a command in the minibuffer, as in "M-x compile",
> I will type a command that uses shell quoting (assuming I need
> quoting). That is the natural thing to do, so I expect most users to
> do the same. I don't expect many of them to use Lisp string quoting
> for commands.
Indeed, `compile' uses a shell and hence obeys shell quoting.
Stefan
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, (continued)
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/21
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Stefan Monnier, 2008/10/21
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/22
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Stefan Monnier, 2008/10/22
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/22
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Stefan Monnier, 2008/10/22
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/22
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Stefan Monnier, 2008/10/22
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/23
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Miles Bader, 2008/10/23
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems,
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