Re: handling parenthesis and quotes

[Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>]

+ Adam <nospam@example.com>:

| Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
|
|> AFAIK, you can `escape' the quotes, with:
|> 
|>   (shell "grep -i \"(define \" ~/mydir/myfile?.lisp")
|
| That's got it, Giorgos.  Thank you. 
| Seems I didn't escape often enough.
|
| (shell "grep -i \"\(define \" ~/mydir/myfile?.lisp")

Much easier to use the single quote for the shell command.  It does
not need to be escaped within the emacs string (and escaping the
parenthesis seems pointless BTW):

(shell "grep -i 'define ' ~/mydir/myfile?.lisp")

Of course, sometimes shell syntax demands double quotes and then you
must escape those: as in "$foo" vs '$foo'.

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