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: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:16:11 -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 1160763420 22459 80.91.229.2 (13 Oct 2006 18:17:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:17:00 +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 Fri Oct 13 20:16:55 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 1GYRaO-0000Kn-HO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:16:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GYRaN-0002Al-Jb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:16:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GYRaA-0002AS-RB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:16:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GYRa6-00029P-5E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:16:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GYRa5-00029I-Ul for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:16:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.184] (helo=tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GYRiQ-0000fY-VM; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:25:03 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.53.194.21]) by tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20061013181614.TJBG10262.tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:16:14 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 51DC69204; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:16:11 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri\, 13 Oct 2006 17\:25\:50 +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:60721 Archived-At: >> > It is often convenient to build the arguments in separate groups; a >> > single string would be awkward. >> Is (mapconcat 'identity foo " ") really awkward? > It's more awkward than just calling a function with a list. The question wasn't whether it more or less awkward, just whether it is awkward. And I really don't think it is. And it has the invaluable advantage of making it crystal clear what's happening. Stefan