From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: master 0c28223 2/3: ; * etc/NEWS: Fix wording in a recent addition.
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 13:53:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmt24kKukWHxC86+cffsjKpHHAzxJ+omO32WDuzBdpbxw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210715092412.6EC9720D13@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> *** New function 'split-string-shell-command'.
> -This splits a shell string into separate components, respecting single
> -and double quotes, as well as backslash quoting.
> +This splits a shell command string into separate components,
> +respecting quoting with single ('like this') and double ("like this")
> +quotes, as well as backslash quoting (like\ this).
Arguably nit-picking, but would it better to say "a string containing
a shell command"? It could be unclear here what a "shell command
string" is; a reader might believe it's a special string type.
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2021-07-15 11:53 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-07-15 14:16 ` master 0c28223 2/3: ; * etc/NEWS: Fix wording in a recent addition Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-15 14:38 ` Andreas Schwab
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