From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: shell-quote-argument: make it behave as if on Unix?
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:56:53 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2950-Wed10Apr2002195652+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vafadsb1xaa.fsf@INBOX.auto.emacs.devel.tok.lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE)
> From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:46:37 +0200
>
> But if the local Emacs is running on Windows, then
> shell-quote-argument produces filenames which are correct for
> Windows, and not for Unix. But the filenames will be used on the
> remote Unix host.
>
> Is there a designed-in facility for telling shell-quote-argument to
> behave as if on Unix, even if Emacs is running on Windows?
It strikes me that we should add to shell-quote-argument an optional
argument that will cause it to quote a shell argument for specific OS.
If the optional argument is omitted or nil, let it default to
system-type.
What do you think?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-10 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-10 13:46 shell-quote-argument: make it behave as if on Unix? Kai Großjohann
2002-04-10 16:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-04-10 21:10 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-10 21:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-12 3:11 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-12 4:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-12 10:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-12 11:43 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-04-12 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-12 18:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-12 11:07 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-12 14:07 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-04-12 13:38 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-12 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-12 16:55 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-12 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-13 19:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-13 19:18 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-15 21:54 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-15 12:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-16 20:17 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-11 14:53 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-11 15:57 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-12 19:49 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-16 9:25 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-16 9:35 ` Kai Großjohann
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