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bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:11:10 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

>     *** `split-string-and-unquote' does (what?)
>     *** `combine-and-quote-strings' does (what?)

AFAIK, these two functions are meant to:

- provide a way to specify any list of strings within a single string
  (i.e. it needs to provide some separators and some way to quote the
  separators), using a format that's simple to type for the end user.
- be inverse of each other; more precisely
  (equal STR (split-string-and-unquote (combine-and-quote-strings STR)))
  this is also stipulated in the docstring of split-string-and-unquote.

As the docstring of split-string-and-unquote explains, the quoting used
is the same as the one used for ELisp strings.

I could have used sh-style quoting or csh-style, or any other style, but
csh-style is nasty, sh-style is too powerful (what should we do with
backquotes and $(...)), and ELisp is what Emacs uses already and it's
reasonably simple and we know it handles all cases reasonably well, so
it seemed like an OK choice.


        Stefan






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