From: raman@google.com (T.V Raman)
To: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, youngfrog@members.fsf.org, raman@google.com
Subject: Re: Feature Request: Function to quote filenames
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 13:24:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21899.4603.137675.136717@retriever.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvbng5vt1m.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Thanks Stefan -- In this instance, I went back and looked in the
buffer on my laptop where I hit the error -- like you said I had used
the result from shell-quote-argument incorrectly -- had used
"... '%s'" and the "'%s'" was the cause of the breakage.
Stefan Monnier writes:
> > interesting, it worked for me just now -- not sure why I hit an error
> > when I last tried. I likely did somethign else that messed it up -- --
> > but in general, I've had trouble with quoting arguments from elisp to
> > the shell.
>
> Quoting is tricky business, and it's easy to mess it up. But details
> matter, and in most cases the problem is not that shell-quote-argument
> doesn't work right, but that it's not called on the right data, or it's
> not called at all, or the result is then later massaged incorrectly,
> etc...
> Once you have a concrete problem case, file a bug report.
>
>
> Stefan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-24 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-24 15:26 Feature Request: Function to quote filenames raman
2015-06-24 15:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-06-24 15:34 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-06-24 16:50 ` T.V Raman
2015-06-24 18:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-24 20:24 ` T.V Raman [this message]
2015-06-24 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
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