From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philipp Stephani Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: combine-and-quote-strings Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 12:59:33 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428836424 23192 80.91.229.3 (12 Apr 2015 11:00:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 11:00:24 +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 13:00:16 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 1YhFce-0008OY-34 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 13:00:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44858 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhFcc-0000MA-VL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 07:00:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46443) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhFcS-0000L7-40 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 07:00:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhFcR-00083M-63 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 07:00:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-x22c.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::22c]:38774) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhFcQ-00082o-VE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 07:00:03 -0400 Original-Received: by wiun10 with SMTP id n10so38781282wiu.1 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 04:00:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; bh=sR3Am5nMHBG+CqyLjzRfAcVWQfIibfw3XQmNYEu6PjU=; b=tQj5jNnsBW+C7LshX0/TI987VOu2VGnFOwqNDMBA/w9M8RlNtKBN6B2xs3ACTEBmWt JE4RD/lS0bVm+2VIM2gme6mmEeZ2ktxvlS4v1nRNZiS8g2YHN5Cob4Qo7cAwN2+N9BJr EjTLVQ7yqT8Xqxsu/2ZIjacGJJVjLI1tjZ21+86n+p8r07RfNUPWKIWOBhj96ceL03ar hwMqtJFAId+PHRUkS1ndlOkQ8CNVsKz6fS7iEeGBjecROMay9etup6WfUtwKKYXuf4MN XhebP0bJ++hp1U/Y0jXGCE43dcSrmp0VeVijL0F4eepfogbdRAAtxPYSJIPEqjJfDAkS Kjbg== X-Received: by 10.194.92.137 with SMTP id cm9mr18530016wjb.133.1428836402283; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 04:00:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from p ([2001:4c50:32e:4e00:452e:8016:267f:9485]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id eh5sm6477738wic.20.2015.04.12.04.00.01 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 12 Apr 2015 04:00:01 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c05::22c 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:103653 Archived-At: 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? Thanks, Philipp