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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 20744@debbugs.gnu.org, Da Zhang <zhangda82@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#20744: shell-quote-argument in Emacs 24.5 and Emacs 25 on Windows cannot figure out path correctly
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2015 14:01:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u67frfieis.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5571CF77.5000902@gmail.com>

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I'm sorry, but I don't see how we can accept such a change: it means
> that when the Cygwin Bash is used as the shell, the ':' character will
> not be quoted, which I think could cause trouble in some cases.
>
> Maybe some Bash expert could chime in and tell whether problems are
> possible with Bash in this case.

Not an expert (and didn't read the rest of the report), but I can't
think of a reason why ':' would need quoting in Bash (unlike eg ';' or '&').
What kind of thing are you thinking of?





  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-07 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-05 16:33 bug#20744: shell-quote-argument in Emacs 24.5 and Emacs 25 on Windows cannot figure out path correctly Da Zhang
2015-06-05 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-05 20:50   ` Da Zhang
2015-06-05 21:05   ` Da Zhang
2015-06-07 18:01   ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2015-06-07 19:11     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-08  0:07       ` Glenn Morris
2015-06-08  0:24         ` Glenn Morris
2015-06-08  0:47           ` Glenn Morris
2015-06-08  2:43             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-08  7:43               ` Michael Albinus
2015-06-08 14:31                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-08 15:14                   ` Michael Albinus
2015-06-08 16:22                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-08 16:34                       ` Michael Albinus
2015-06-08 14:03         ` Stefan Monnier
2016-08-10  0:51 ` npostavs

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