From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Shell argument quoting woes Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:28:51 +0200 Message-ID: <87d2q6fyks.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374766763 7829 80.91.229.3 (25 Jul 2013 15:39:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:39:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 25 17:39:24 2013 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 1V2NdU-0000rn-8Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:39:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57678 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2NdT-0002Vt-Qr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:39:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60615) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2NdH-0002TX-VG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:39:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2NdG-0002Ox-Tf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:39:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:32934) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2NTZ-0007RW-R8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:29:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V2NTV-0002Yh-Kd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:29:05 +0200 Original-Received: from g231225006.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.225.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:29:05 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by g231225006.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:29:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231225006.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OiRuz/FITG91ZEd9p0hubDalQ58= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:92402 Archived-At: Rustom Mody writes: > On Thursday, July 25, 2013 7:00:32 PM UTC+5:30, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > Seems to me that this inside lisp > >> ,------------------------ >> | prg -'fun \"strg\" num' >> `------------------------ >> How can I quote such a 'cmd' string in a way that it finally arrives as > > should be this > >> >> ,------------------------ >> | $ prg -'fun "strg" num' >> `------------------------ > > at the shell... No? > > Anyway heres some (not too great) hacking: > (with my recently learnt from Bastien's C-j!) > > (setq cmd "prg -'fun \"strg\" num'") > "prg -'fun \"strg\" num'" > (setq x (split-string cmd "-")) > ("prg " "'fun \"strg\" num'") > (setq p (car (split-string (car x)))) > "prg" > (setq arg (cadr x)) > "'fun \"strg\" num'" > ; (make-comint "buffer-name" p nil (concat "-" arg)) I see, so the problem was actually the string-splitting by spaces and not the quoting. Thanks! -- cheers, Thorsten