From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8531: 24.0.50; shell-quote-argument shouldn't escape special characters Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:03:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8762q8xe3i.fsf@gmail.com> <83ei4v3ndm.fsf@gnu.org> <87ipu7oldi.fsf@gmail.com> <83aafj3gd6.fsf@gnu.org> <87hb9rzq6a.fsf@gmail.com> <837han3dw7.fsf@gnu.org> <87aafjzhpe.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1303459659 18572 80.91.229.12 (22 Apr 2011 08:07:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:07:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8531@debbugs.gnu.org, thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 22 10:07:33 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QDBOn-0005Ya-Gg for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:07:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49674 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QDBOm-00072y-K4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57010) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QDBOk-00072t-80 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:07:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QDBOj-0004Q8-4p for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:07:30 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:48468) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QDBOj-0004Q4-0t for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:07:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QDBLO-0000Vf-2l; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:04:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:04:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8531 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8531-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8531.13034594161924 (code B ref 8531); Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:04:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8531) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Apr 2011 08:03:36 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QDBKy-0000Uz-4L for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:03:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QDBKw-0000Un-6y for 8531@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:03:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QDBKq-0004j6-Hk; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:03:28 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Glenn Morris on Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:10:39 -0400) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:04:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:45940 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com, 8531@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:10:39 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Doesn't Eshell support the standard shell feature whereby a > > non-special character escaped by a backslash stands for itself? > > From reading the comments in eshell-parse-backslash, no. IMO, the reasons stated in those comments for not supporting escaped non-special characters are bad a design decision. Eshell should only do that on Windows, and even then there should be a user option for such behavior, the default being that the directory separator is a forward slash. IOW, Eshell should behave like a Posix shell, even on Windows.