From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#8531: 24.0.50; shell-quote-argument shouldn't escape special characters
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:58:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837han3dw7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hb9rzq6a.fsf@gmail.com>
> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:31:41 +0200
>
> > The command was "ls Vid\éos". It displayed the files in that
> > directory.
> Yes, but ls "Vid\éos" fail.
Where did the quotes come from? shell-quote-argument doesn't add
extra quotes.
> The point is being able to do something like this:
> (shell-command (format "ls %s" (shell-quote-argument (read-string "Fname: "))))
>
> instead of e.g
> (shell-command (format "ls '%s'" (read-string "Fname: ")))
The former works for me without any changes. Are you sure you use the
default version of shell-quote-argument?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-21 13:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-21 7:23 bug#8531: 24.0.50; shell-quote-argument shouldn't escape special characters Thierry Volpiatto
2011-04-21 10:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-21 12:10 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-04-21 13:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-21 13:31 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-04-21 13:58 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-04-21 16:34 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-04-21 23:14 ` Glenn Morris
2011-04-22 5:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-22 7:10 ` Glenn Morris
2011-04-22 8:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-22 6:03 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-04-22 6:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-22 9:21 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2014-12-08 9:34 ` bug#8531: 24.0.50; samer
2014-12-08 18:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-09 0:15 ` samer
2014-12-09 0:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-09 2:11 ` samer
2014-12-09 2:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-09 22:11 ` samer
2014-12-09 22:21 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-09 22:30 ` samer
2014-12-08 16:48 ` bug#8531: 24.0.50; shell-quote-argument shouldn't escape special characters samer
2015-02-24 10:51 ` bug#8531: 24.0.50; Samer Masterson
2015-03-03 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <1425472710.1450.3@mail.samertm.com>
[not found] ` <83h9u0psn8.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-04-06 3:50 ` Samer Masterson
2015-03-15 11:58 ` Samer Masterson
2015-04-09 2:32 ` Stefan Monnier
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