From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp's future Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:12:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87d2ahm3nw.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87zjd9swfj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87oatnqpml.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <874mvdrj45.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20141009044917.GA19957@fencepost.gnu.org> <83lhopisfr.fsf@gnu.org> <87ppe1pldu.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8761ft5wpo.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83k349b0vj.fsf@gnu.org> <83bnph96kh.fsf@gnu.org> <83zjd07ce0.fsf@gnu.org> <834mv76udz.fsf@gnu.org> <837g015roy.fsf@gnu.org> <87siipv1f6.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413483151 378 80.91.229.3 (16 Oct 2014 18:12:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 18:12:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mikegerwitz@gnu.org, mhw@netris.org, dmantipov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, eliz@gnu.org, stephen@xemacs.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 16 20:12:26 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XepXF-0001bj-JN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 20:12:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51824 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XepXF-0000Ob-2L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:12:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34360) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XepXB-0000NU-IQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:12:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XepXA-0000xj-P5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:12:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35926) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XepXA-0000xf-Lb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:12:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XepX8-0002Ls-Lh; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:12:18 -0400 In-reply-to: <87siipv1f6.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from David Kastrup on Wed, 15 Oct 2014 16:43:25 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175475 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I presented three solutions for handling shell-command-to-string, but I was confusing it with another function which is a command. shell-command-to-string is only used in Lisp programs, and probably those programs will not show that text to a user except in error messages. Perhaps it should always do strict decoding. Can you present a real example of using shell-command-to-string that really needs to do flexible decoding? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.