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: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:14:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <452D54D8.7060705@student.lu.se> <452DDBC8.2060606@student.lu.se> <85y7rmou5t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85d58xq3xd.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <858xjlq2x8.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 1160957699 8756 80.91.229.2 (16 Oct 2006 00:14:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:14:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen_leake@member.fsf.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, schwab@suse.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 16 02:14:57 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 1GZG89-0005EV-1z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:14:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZG88-0005XO-BL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:14:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GZG7w-0005X3-5z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:14:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GZG7u-0005Wi-PC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:14:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZG7u-0005Wa-Ft for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:14:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.184] (helo=tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GZGGs-0000yR-R7; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:23:59 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.55.146.105]) by tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20061016001439.GFYH10262.tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:14:39 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id F2CA780BD; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:14:39 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat\, 14 Oct 2006 20\:26\:00 +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:60776 Archived-At: >> The notion of what is simpler is clearly objective and we may never agree, > That is exactly why I asked for _your_ notion of ``simpler''. >> but I may be satisfied by a concrete example which you consider >> as simpler. >[silence] The absence of answer here seems to indicate that you don't have a concrete example which *you* consider as simpler. So the potential disagreement about what is simpler is really not the stumbling block. > Well, the function exists in this form for many years (at least 12). > I'm guessing that the &rest args form was to make it similar to > start-process or something, but that's just a guess. Yes, that's my guess as well. Doesn't mean that it was a good decision, since it is misleading to think that it works like start-process. Anyway, that's post-22 stuff. Stefan