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> From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:46:37 +0200
> 
> But if the local Emacs is running on Windows, then
> shell-quote-argument produces filenames which are correct for
> Windows, and not for Unix.  But the filenames will be used on the
> remote Unix host.
> 
> Is there a designed-in facility for telling shell-quote-argument to
> behave as if on Unix, even if Emacs is running on Windows?

It strikes me that we should add to shell-quote-argument an optional
argument that will cause it to quote a shell argument for specific OS.
If the optional argument is omitted or nil, let it default to
system-type.

What do you think?