From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: tex-mode and shell-quote-argument Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 12:11:19 -0400 Message-ID: <200505291611.j4TGBJH11300@f7.net> References: <87y89yw1pj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117383564 10054 80.91.229.2 (29 May 2005 16:19:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 16:19:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 29 18:19:23 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DcQV3-0007i1-OQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 May 2005 18:18:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DcQZl-0002cj-0E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 May 2005 12:23:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DcQY5-00028u-91 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 May 2005 12:22:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DcQXy-00025h-D6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 May 2005 12:21:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DcQXy-0001zV-1P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 May 2005 12:21:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.61.216.22] (helo=f7.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DcQPH-0007KV-2e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 May 2005 12:12:55 -0400 X-Envelope-From: karl@freefriends.org X-Envelope-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by f7.net (8.11.7-20030920/8.11.7) id j4TGBJH11300; Sun, 29 May 2005 12:11:19 -0400 Original-To: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca In-Reply-To: <87y89yw1pj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37859 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37859 Could someone explain to me more clearly the justification/need for the latest patch to tex-mode: I give up. Someone needs to maintain tex-mode.el who can actually use it and test it. I can't. If you think it's the right thing to do to revert all or most or part of the latest patch, please do. Is it just a case of enthusiasm going a bit over and beyond the call of duty? I guess so. I really don't know any more. Or am I missing something? You probably aren't, but I don't feel competent to say. The story is, as tersely explained in the ChangeLog: 1) Olive Lin contributed a small change back in March that added the shell-quote-argument to tex-send-command. 2) More recently (May 18), Frederik Fouvry reported a problem with double quoting on tex-print. His original report used 8-bit chars in filenames, he later told me it happens with any non-posix-safe char, such as @. 3) Olive, Frederik, rms and I batted it around and no one saw what you did. For myself, I just said oh, well, here are more calls to shell-quote-argument, let's remove them. I didn't notice that there were different arguments involved. 4) Shoot me now. karl