Re: Surprising behaviour of 'append' with strings

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

R. Diez wrote:

> However, I got into trouble with 'append'. Its documentation
> states:
>
> "Each argument may be a list, vector or string."
>
> I tested it like this:
>
> (append "1")      -> "1"
> (append "1" "2")  -> (49 . "2")

`append' is like that with strings (well, obviously), try it
with lists instead.

Also see `cl-concatenate', `push', and many other ways to
create and manipulate lists.

But I think you are on the wrong track here, you insert
a layer of complexity with this Elisp to semi-manually hammer
out shell commands, this will be very time-consuming and
error-prone, better to have all the shell stuff in shell
functions and scripts, those OTOH you can absolutely execute
from Emacs/Elisp and use their results - and that's a fine way
to do it.

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