From: Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Latest commit to dired-aux; maybe add string-multi-replace?
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:04:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737lnvl05.fsf@limebv.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-9tM2ofFZydKsP0xamykJsUPJtpZAdpJWhicsVOMvtaoQ@mail.gmail.com> (Noam Postavsky's message of "Mon, 29 Aug 2016 07:52:24 -0400")
Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 4:44 AM, Oleh Krehel <oleh@oremacs.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just fixed the `dired-do-compress' command to work with files and
>> directories that have spaces in them.
>>
>> After the fix, I saw this pattern repeat:
>>
>> (dired-shell-command
>> (replace-regexp-in-string
>> "%o" (shell-quote-argument out-name)
>> (replace-regexp-in-string
>> "%i" (shell-quote-argument (file-name-nondirectory file))
>> (cadr suffix)
>> nil t)
>> nil t))
>>
>> I've seen the pattern of nested `replace-regexp-in-string' quite a few
>> times before. It doesn't look great.
>
> What about using `format-spec'? I think that would be:
>
> (dired-shell-command
> (format-spec (cadr suffix)
> `((?o . ,(shell-quote-argument out-name))
> (?i . ,(shell-quote-argument
> (file-name-nondirectory file))))))
Thanks, Noam. `format-spec' is exactly what I needed.
Oleh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-29 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-29 8:44 Latest commit to dired-aux; maybe add string-multi-replace? Oleh Krehel
2016-08-29 11:52 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-08-29 12:04 ` Oleh Krehel [this message]
2016-08-29 12:16 ` Tino Calancha
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