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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 71935@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71935: split-string-and-unquote mishandles dired-listing-switches with '
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 21:34:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8634op80r5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8634opowlq.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Thu, 04 Jul 2024 21:12:01 +0300)

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: 71935@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 21:12:01 +0300
> 
> >> >> 1. (setopt dired-listing-switches "-al --block-size='1")
> >> >> 2. C-x d /tmp/*
> >> 
> >> This part of insert-directory is used only in case of 1-2 above,
> >> i.e. for wildcard '/tmp/*'.  In this case the value of 'switches'
> >> is "--dired -N -al --block-size='1", and 'shell-quote-argument'
> >> returns "--dired\\ -N\\ -al\\ --block-size\\=\\'1" that fails.
> >
> > I meant to call shell-quote-argument on each option, before they are
> > concatenated.
> 
> But switches are never unconcatenated in a list,
> they come from the string:
> 
>   (setopt dired-listing-switches "-al --block-size='1")

If they are a single string, split it with split-string-and-unquote,
then concatenate after running each one through shell-quote-argument.
If they are a list of strings, quote each one before concatenating
with mapconcat.






  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-04 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-04  6:51 bug#71935: split-string-and-unquote mishandles dired-listing-switches with ' Juri Linkov
2024-07-04  8:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-04 16:10   ` Juri Linkov
2024-07-04 17:56     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-04 18:12       ` Juri Linkov
2024-07-04 18:34         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-07-04 18:54           ` Juri Linkov
2024-07-04 19:03             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-04 19:11               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-05  6:48                 ` Juri Linkov
2024-07-05  7:43                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-07  6:57               ` Juri Linkov

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