From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command? Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:15:38 +0200 Message-ID: References: <452D54D8.7060705@student.lu.se> <452DDBC8.2060606@student.lu.se> <85y7rmou5t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160641057 1693 80.91.229.2 (12 Oct 2006 08:17:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:17:37 +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 10:17:33 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 1GXvka-0007o3-AI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:17:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GXvkZ-0005lM-Hj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:17:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GXvk2-0005k0-Or for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:16:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GXvjy-0005is-Pz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:16:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GXvjy-0005io-Jl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:16:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.237] (helo=pfepc.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GXvs4-0005sH-6D; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (unknown [80.165.4.124]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id D46748A0051; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:16:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <85y7rmou5t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Thu\, 12 Oct 2006 09\:44\:14 +0200") 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:60631 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > One would have to look at the actual use cases to see whether any > caller assumes differently, but from the description, I'd agree with > Lennart's idea. But it would break any uses where the caller already has used shell-quote-argument. Let's leave the API alone -- but it would be ok to mention the use of shell-quote-argument in the doc string. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk