From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: combine-and-quote-strings Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 12:55:55 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87bnitpqdg.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428836728 27215 80.91.229.3 (12 Apr 2015 11:05:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 11:05:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 12 13:05:25 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YhFhb-0002MA-6W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 13:05:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44868 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhFha-0001bL-5N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 07:05:22 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 7xRSUo9p/kqQartKNPakxwUp3569fuZVrlfo00zsCNa6GZydKB Cancel-Lock: sha1:NTEzZTU5YmJkODVmMjQyNDIwMWZjMjJmMWZjYzY5MTFiZWQzOWNmZA== sha1:dHu/J6CvPw3xPN6fuAgxlcEWbjw= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211372 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103654 Archived-At: Philipp Stephani writes: > Hi, > > the Lisp manual explains (in the section "Shell Arguments"): > > The following two functions are useful for combining a list of > individual command-line argument strings into a single string, > > This is about combine-and-quote-strings (and > split-strings-and-unquote). However, combine-and-quote-strings can't > really be used for that purpose because it doesn't quote many shell > metacharacters. The correct way to shell-quote a list of arguments is > > (mapconcat #'shell-quote-argument ARGS " ") > > Should combine-and-quote-strings be reimplemented in terms of > shell-quote-argument? The current definition doesn't seem to be optimal > for shell quoting because many inputs aren't properly quoted. > > Or is combine-and-quote-strings not intended for shell quoting at all > and the documentation should be adapted? The documentation ofcombine-and-quote-strings doesn't mention shell quoting at all. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk