From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs 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 Message-ID: References: <5571CF77.5000902@gmail.com> <83oaktoqw1.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1433700146 6803 80.91.229.3 (7 Jun 2015 18:02:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 18:02:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20744@debbugs.gnu.org, Da Zhang To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 07 20:02:14 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z1etg-0001n9-S8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2015 20:02:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54890 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z1etb-0000jc-8W for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2015 14:02:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45271) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z1etX-0000jF-Ji for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2015 14:02:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z1etW-0007De-R7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2015 14:02:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:34264) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z1etW-0007Da-NZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2015 14:02:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z1etW-0000yn-FX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2015 14:02:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <5571CF77.5000902@gmail.com> Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2015 18:02:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20744 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 20744-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20744.14337001023739 (code B ref 20744); Sun, 07 Jun 2015 18:02:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20744) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Jun 2015 18:01:42 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44239 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z1etC-0000yE-8W for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2015 14:01:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59890) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z1etA-0000y2-GZ for 20744@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2015 14:01:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z1et4-00076y-OO for 20744@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2015 14:01:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:38460) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z1et3-00076k-A0; Sun, 07 Jun 2015 14:01:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Z1et1-0002Ts-AJ; Sun, 07 Jun 2015 14:01:31 -0400 X-Spook: Cancelled encryption Biological weapon Home grown X-Ran: QwM|"zaCB$TOV]*]|E&-&f}xmyGR$T8|(n~GkFn@<"|w1[<7m<%L]G<1W\Ry;JZ2yA8)?q X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:103701 Archived-At: 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?