From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why call-process removes '{' and '}' chars from arguments???
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:39:36 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wruhru5j.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hu6fkl$h98$1@dough.gmane.org>
> From: Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:40:46 +0300
>
> I use Emacs 23.2 under Windows.
>
> (call-process
> "echo.exe"
> nil (get-buffer "*Messages*") nil
> "--bla" "{rev}" "}}}xxx{1}xxx{2}xxx{{{" )
>
> put in Message buffer
>
> "--bla rev }}}xxx1xxx2xxx"
>
> so remove occurrences of "{" and "}". Why???
I cannot reproduce this in Emacs 23.2 on MS-Windows. I get the
expected result:
--bla {rev} }}}xxx{1}xxx{2}xxx{{{
What kind of port of which program is your echo.exe? What happens if
you invoke the same command from the shell?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-02 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-02 20:40 Why call-process removes '{' and '}' chars from arguments??? Oleksandr Gavenko
2010-06-02 21:39 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-06-03 7:46 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2010-06-03 15:04 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2010-06-03 20:33 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2010-06-04 8:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
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