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Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:18:20 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>> >> I do not understand: what makes you think it could be a properly quoted
>> >> shell command?
>> > Because you said that working with shell commands was why these
>> > functions were invented in the first place. And that is how they are
>> > used in Emacs as of now.
>> No, they're used to run commands. Without going through a shell.
> Then why would one need quoting?
Because when you run a command with start-process or call-process, you
need to specify a list of strings (each being an argument), but the user
usually wants to enter the list within a single minibuffer. So from the
string returned by the read-string (or equivalent) function, we need to
get a list of strings.
Stefan
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, (continued)
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Stefan Monnier, 2008/10/20
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/21
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Stefan Monnier, 2008/10/21
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/21
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Stefan Monnier, 2008/10/21
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/22
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Stefan Monnier, 2008/10/22
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/22
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Stefan Monnier, 2008/10/22
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/22
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/10/23
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Miles Bader, 2008/10/23
- Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems, Stefan Monnier, 2008/10/23