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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Oleh Krehel <oleh@oremacs.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Latest commit to dired-aux; maybe add string-multi-replace?
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 07:52:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-9tM2ofFZydKsP0xamykJsUPJtpZAdpJWhicsVOMvtaoQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87poosj75w.fsf@oremacs.com>

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))))))



  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-29 11:52 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 [this message]
2016-08-29 12:04   ` Oleh Krehel
2016-08-29 12:16 ` Tino Calancha

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