Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote.

[Random832]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Random832 <address@hidden>
>> It doesn't have a documented way for the caller to insist that the
>> string be quoted for a POSIX shell rather than the user's shell.
>
> On what OS would that distinction be important, and why?

Any OS which may have both a POSIX shell that a script may want to
execute and a non-POSIX shell that is the user's shell. So basically all
of them, especially if support for more non-POSIX shells such as csh,
rc, scsh, fish, tclsh, is added in the future - or if a user's
configuration supports them in the present by replacing or advising the
function.

It would mainly be useful in the presence of a broader mechanism, which
doesn't exist yet, for executing POSIX shell scripts regardless of the
user's interactive shell.

> (I presume you mean the ELisp manual, because the doc string doesn't
> mention overriding the function).

Yes, I meant (info "(ELisp)Shell Arguments"), sorry.