From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8531: 24.0.50; shell-quote-argument shouldn't escape special characters Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:58:00 +0300 Message-ID: <837han3dw7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8762q8xe3i.fsf@gmail.com> <83ei4v3ndm.fsf@gnu.org> <87ipu7oldi.fsf@gmail.com> <83aafj3gd6.fsf@gnu.org> <87hb9rzq6a.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1303394858 3236 80.91.229.12 (21 Apr 2011 14:07:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:07:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Thierry Volpiatto Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 21 16:07:34 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QCuXc-00044i-T1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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It displayed the files in tha= t > > directory. > Yes, but ls "Vid\=C3=A9os" fail. Where did the quotes come from? shell-quote-argument doesn't add extra quotes. > The point is being able to do something like this: > (shell-command (format "ls %s" (shell-quote-argument (read-string "= Fname: ")))) >=20 > instead of e.g > (shell-command (format "ls '%s'" (read-string "Fname: "))) The former works for me without any changes. Are you sure you use th= e default version of shell-quote-argument?