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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: combine-and-quote-strings
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 11:04:51 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17519caa-57df-4d43-b4ad-8f2ac989a560@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twwlxqzx.fsf@debian.uxu>

> > The documentation of combine-and-quote-strings
> > doesn't mention shell quoting at all.
> 
> Here is what the on-line help says - and I quote :)...
> Here is what the Lisp manual say:...
> 
> So no, it doesn't mention shell quoting (or the
> quoting of metachars as the OP puts it) but
> 1) I don't think the on-line help is clear and
> 2) the Lisp manual is clear (or more clear at least)
>    save for the last sentence: the "individual
>    command-line arguments"...
> 
> In particular, both should make clear...

`M-x report-emacs-bug' if you think a doc improvement
is in order.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-12 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.502.1428836406.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-12 10:55 ` combine-and-quote-strings Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-04-12 16:15   ` combine-and-quote-strings Emanuel Berg
2015-04-12 18:04     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-04-14 19:06       ` combine-and-quote-strings Philipp Stephani
2015-04-14 18:54   ` combine-and-quote-strings Philipp Stephani
2015-04-12 10:59 combine-and-quote-strings Philipp Stephani

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