From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command? Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:10:20 +0200 Message-ID: References: <452D54D8.7060705@student.lu.se> <452DDBC8.2060606@student.lu.se> <85y7rmou5t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85d58xq3xd.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <858xjlq2x8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160831477 17757 80.91.229.2 (14 Oct 2006 13:11:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:11:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen_leake@member.fsf.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, schwab@suse.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 14 15:11:13 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 1GYjI3-0005OR-5t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:10:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GYjI2-0005iT-1X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:10:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GYjHi-0005bY-RU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:10:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GYjHg-0005UG-4n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:10:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GYjHf-0005Tp-RC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:10:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.73] (helo=heller.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GYjQC-0002PG-Bk; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:19:24 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-41-232.inter.net.il [80.230.41.232]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id ASJ37189 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:10:07 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:18:18 -0400) 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:60738 Archived-At: > Cc: stephen_leake@member.fsf.org, dak@gnu.org, schwab@suse.de, > emacs-devel@gnu.org, lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:18:18 -0400 > > >> The question wasn't whether it more or less awkward, just whether it is > >> awkward. And I really don't think it is. And it has the invaluable > >> advantage of making it crystal clear what's happening. > > > It's quite clear I cannot convince you no matter what I say, so let's > > just agree to disagree. > > I guess I could be convinced by example code where the use of the "multiple > arg feature" makes the code simpler (without introducing extra bugs). Define ``make the code simpler'', and I will try to think if there is an example of that.