From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: shell-quote-argument: make it behave as if on Unix? Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 15:38:50 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <2950-Wed10Apr2002195652+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <5xr8llypr8.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018618939 26232 127.0.0.1 (12 Apr 2002 13:42:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:42:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16w1Jj-0006oz-00 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 15:42:19 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16w1a0-00008c-00 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 15:59:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16w1JW-0008Oy-00; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:42:06 -0400 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de ([129.217.4.42]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16w1GY-0008Bj-00 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g3CDcvb16939; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 15:38:57 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id PAA23190; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 15:38:51 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id BFECB3ADCF; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 15:38:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-Reply-To: <5xr8llypr8.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (storm@cua.dk's message of "12 Apr 2002 16:07:23 +0200") Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2582 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2582 storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > But I agree that this would suffice, and maybe a shorter doc string > would be sufficient [Don't give an example -- this is for lisp > experts anyway]... Maybe this is enough: > > The variable `system-type' determines the kind of quoting performed. Yes. But maybe people would like to know which values are useful values. So it could say that there are three cases: ms-dos, windows-nt, and everything else. kai -- Silence is foo!