From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command? Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:38:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <452D54D8.7060705@student.lu.se> <452DDBC8.2060606@student.lu.se> <85y7rmou5t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85d58xq3xd.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85mz81ol12.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160693432 3811 80.91.229.2 (12 Oct 2006 22:50:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:50:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, eliz@gnu.org, lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 13 00:50:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GY9Dw-0000nV-H6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:40:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GY9Dw-0001O7-2m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:40:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GY9C9-00009k-1w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:38:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GY9C8-00008u-Bm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:38:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GY9C7-00008d-TX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:38:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GY9KR-0003Bn-Gs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:47:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1GY9C6-0006xA-QQ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:38:26 -0400 Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: <85mz81ol12.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:01:29 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:60689 Archived-At: But the current documentation string and the availability of multiple arguments that are _documented_ as multiple arguments is quite misleading. If we decide that those arguments are not intended to be multiple arguments but rather something that is merely spliced together with spaces into one single string, then the documentation should reflect this. The function does what it is supposed to do. I agree that we should change the documentation in this way.