From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: shell-like Emacs CLI, and my Usenet behaviour Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:16:08 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87eh9qpznc.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376925617 4279 80.91.229.3 (19 Aug 2013 15:20:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 15:20:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 19 17:20:20 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 1VBRFj-0006hu-Ga for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:20:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43654 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VBRFi-0003na-Pd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:20:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="30624"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19R1+Z2DSj5PXT9UFBlEpZV" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fVBQ92p7OpNSnT9PDpQ5/n3dj4c= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200725 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:92992 Archived-At: In article <87eh9qpznc.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se>, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Putting it the other way around, are there any advantages to the > Emacs way, or is it the way it is because of practical > considerations when it was implemented? The main advantage is that the user doesn't have to worry about quoting/escaping arguments when they contain the character that would be used as the parameter delimiter. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***