From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command? Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:48:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <452D54D8.7060705@student.lu.se> <452DDBC8.2060606@student.lu.se> <85y7rmou5t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85bqohmvpg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <42118.128.165.123.18.1160676705.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160683273 24167 80.91.229.2 (12 Oct 2006 20:01:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:01:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 12 22:01:11 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GY6Xu-0000ez-Ua for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:48:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GY6Xu-0006G6-HV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:48:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GY6Xh-0006FE-84 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:48:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GY6Xg-0006EQ-6P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:48:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GY6Xf-0006EN-U1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:48:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.25] (helo=tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GY6fu-0004Rv-Tx; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:57:03 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.53.194.21]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20061012194827.CAFO18394.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:48:27 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5847780F6; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:48:27 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: herring@lanl.gov In-Reply-To: <42118.128.165.123.18.1160676705.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (Stuart D. Herring's message of "Thu\, 12 Oct 2006 11\:11\:45 -0700 \(PDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:60680 Archived-At: > Unless it makes sense on VMS (about which I know nothing) to do something > like (start-process "foo" "*bar*" "ls -l") (since > `start-process-shell-command' redirects to an identical `start-process' > call on VMS), which would be the preferred mode of operation for this > function, the function is broken already. I don't think the decision on this should depend on VMS. Stefan