From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Question about start-process and argument list Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2023 14:54:43 -0800 Message-ID: <87zg9ujr64.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87r0v7wgrp.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <63dd5f91.050a0220.1f3dc.df39@mx.google.com> <878rhel9zf.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14103"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: Bruno Barbier , Jean Louis , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: chad Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 03 23:55:33 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pO4xw-0003To-Tg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2023 23:55:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pO4xG-0000am-Qm; Fri, 03 Feb 2023 17:54:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pO4xF-0000aK-3x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2023 17:54:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.ericabrahamsen.net ([52.70.2.18]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pO4xD-0004uc-HP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2023 17:54:48 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [76.135.104.211]) (Authenticated sender: eric@ericabrahamsen.net) by mail.ericabrahamsen.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2B5F5FA089; Fri, 3 Feb 2023 22:54:45 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ericabrahamsen.net; s=mail; t=1675464885; bh=EzQrQrXUenVouWWbMwwx9Enb3hcvyV/YQmcW2bvlRuc=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=jdUL1Qopar9KSzKIXlqm5vpkASFYNDpJakUq4Fy30lG2xnhAnP8zb5Be0b+NPy5WH txtqHkbOOLa/MmHDoBfzI/imT0Qa5+vj1dTZWOa+J8rV0XNnMInUJ3s10I2JTn8mLi RACgXLCn0Qcdc7GgVCsXe4qWB7NQdBfdlEi1Qnic= In-Reply-To: (chad's message of "Fri, 3 Feb 2023 16:34:35 -0500") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=52.70.2.18; envelope-from=eric@ericabrahamsen.net; helo=mail.ericabrahamsen.net X-Spam_score_int: -43 X-Spam_score: -4.4 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:302939 Archived-At: chad writes: > On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 4:23 PM Eric Abrahamsen > wrote: > >> >> Kind of sounds like I should be using `start-process-shell-command' >> again! As I understand it, this is its main selling point. >> > > Have you by chance looked at shell-quote-argument or > split-string-shell-command? It's been a while since I had to deal with > this, but I recall the former being helpful then, and it looks like it may > be meant to handle your situation. But, to be clear, my problem doesn't seem to be escaping/unescaping shell-specific characters, as far as I can see that isn't causing the trouble. It's passing in the search query as a single argument, when it contains spaces. It works fine when it's a single string with no spaces in it.