From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: raman <raman@google.com>
Cc: politza@hochschule-trier.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: shell-unquote-argument: throws error if called outside a shell buffer
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 17:17:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k27ucyod.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p91bmt72osz.fsf@google.com> (message from raman on Sat, 11 Mar 2017 18:48:12 -0800)
> From: raman <raman@google.com>
> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 18:48:12 -0800
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Andreas Politz <politza@hochschule-trier.de> writes:
> Yes, namespacing -- plus incomplete documentation.
> shell-unquote-argument is a compiled Lisp function in `shell.el'.
>
> (shell-unquote-argument STRING)
>
> Remove all kinds of shell quoting from STRING.
I think this is simply a bug: the only reason that function wants a
shell buffer is to access the name of the shell process running in
it. It could instead fall back on some system-dependent default, and
perhaps also provide a way for Lisp callers to specify the shell.
Patches to that effect are welcome. (I'm also in favor of moving this
function to subr.el, while at that.)
TIA
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-12 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-11 21:01 shell-unquote-argument: throws error if called outside a shell buffer raman
2017-03-11 23:10 ` Andreas Politz
2017-03-12 2:48 ` raman
2017-03-12 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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