From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: shell-quote-argument seems quoting backup files incorrectly Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:48:18 -0600 Message-ID: References: <4A8408D1.8010700@cad.zju.edu.cn> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250337031 27490 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2009 11:50:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:50:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 15 13:50:24 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1McHmA-0003i9-0S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:50:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42816 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1McHm8-00079e-Bp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:50:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1McHkY-00079P-9C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:48:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1McHkS-00077d-Ly for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:48:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56919 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1McHkS-00077a-J8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:48:36 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:37090 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1McHkS-00037q-1w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:48:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1McHkN-0006XB-PJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:48:31 +0000 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:48:31 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:48:31 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) In-Reply-To: <4A8408D1.8010700@cad.zju.edu.cn> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67166 Archived-At: Jin Huang wrote: > > Dear All, > > I just set my emacs (GNU Emacs 23.0.91.1) to use the system (Ubuntu > 9.04) trash. It works fine for most of the file, however cannot move > backup files (with ~ in the end of the file name) into trash, even > cannot delete it. > > I followed the instruction from > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SystemTrash. Then I shrunk the code > for the minimal set to reproduce the problem: > > ========== Code A ========== > (setq delete-by-moving-to-trash t) > (defun system-move-file-to-trash (filename) > (call-process "gvfs-trash" nil nil nil filename)) > > ========== Code B ========== > (setq delete-by-moving-to-trash t) > (defun system-move-file-to-trash (filename) > (call-process "gvfs-trash" nil nil nil (shell-quote-argument filename))) > > Code A can move the backup file into trash correctly, however Code B > cannot. > > One possible reason is that the backup suffix "~" mixes up with the > notation for home directory. > > Is there any solution? call-process does not invoke the shell, so you should not use shell-quote-argument with it (cf. call-process-shell-command and shell-command). -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA