From: raman <raman@google.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Feature Request: Function to quote filenames
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 08:26:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p91twtxm8jn.fsf@google.com> (raw)
Feature Request:
Motivated by the increasing number of filenames that show up with spc,
"'" and other punctuation characters in their name.
The only helper function Emacs provides today is shell-quote-argument --
which often doesn't do the trick.
As an example: Given the filename:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
(setq f (shell-quote-argument "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"))
returns
"Alice\\'s\\ Adventures\\ in\\ Wonderland"
But invocations like
(shell-command (format "ls %s" f))
throw an error
it's never obvious what quoting magic to use to get all the cases
right.
Would be nice if we had a shell-quote-filename elisp function that did
all of the magic quoting.
--
next reply other threads:[~2015-06-24 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-24 15:26 raman [this message]
2015-06-24 15:34 ` Feature Request: Function to quote filenames Andreas Schwab
2015-06-24 15:34 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-06-24 16:50 ` T.V Raman
2015-06-24 18:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-24 20:24 ` T.V Raman
2015-06-24 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
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