From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Surprising behaviour of 'append' with strings Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2022 13:19:43 +0100 Message-ID: <87bkpke0m8.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <6554cc02-2082-3dca-73cc-05fee1c6c4d0.ref@yahoo.de> <6554cc02-2082-3dca-73cc-05fee1c6c4d0@yahoo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7493"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:/WbPfO0itX/aX3pjqHoz4BztfD8= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 06 15:23:05 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1orgYC-0001j5-UY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 15:23:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1orgXx-0005Ly-R7; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 09:22:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ored1-00042c-AR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 07:19:55 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1orecz-0004tF-DJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 07:19:54 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1orecw-0004oE-HI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2022 13:19:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 06 Nov 2022 09:22:47 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:140727 Archived-At: R. Diez wrote: > I want to build a list of command-line arguments to run > a program. Each element of the list must be a string. > > The commands are complex shell invocations with nested shell > commands. Isn't it better to use a shell script language then? In Elisp maybe you can use `let' and then `shell-command-to-string' but even that is an uphill battle IMO ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal