From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command? Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:24:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <452D54D8.7060705@student.lu.se> <452DDBC8.2060606@student.lu.se> <85y7rmou5t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85bqohmvpg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160667255 15662 80.91.229.2 (12 Oct 2006 15:34:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:34:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 12 17:34:12 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 1GY2R3-0007wv-Cx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:25:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GY2R2-0005UV-Sh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:25:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GY2Qo-0005SN-49 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:25:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GY2Qm-0005Q8-1i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:25:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GY2Ql-0005Pl-O7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:25:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.25] (helo=tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GY2Yy-0007EV-Ab; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:33:36 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.53.194.21]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20061012152502.ZVUW18394.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:25:02 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4FFB280F6; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:24:58 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <85bqohmvpg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Thu\, 12 Oct 2006 16\:53\:47 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:60673 Archived-At: > I agree with the gist of your patch which removes the confusion about > the args. > But it does this only in the doc string, not the code itself. This > gives the function "hidden" backwards compatibility. > I don't think that is really a good idea: I think the code should > follow suit. Well, I guess the docstring should do like the `sit-for' does, and mention the old calling convention and mention that it's deprecated. Stefan