Re: Feature Request: Function to quote filenames

[Nicolas Richard]

Hi,

raman <address@hidden> writes:
> (setq f (shell-quote-argument "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"))
> returns 
> "Alice\\'s\\ Adventures\\ in\\ Wonderland"
>
>  But invocations like 
> (shell-command (format "ls %s" f))
>
>  throw an error 

It works for me after saying
    touch "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
in a shell. What error do you get ?

> Would be nice if we had a shell-quote-filename elisp function that did
> all of the magic quoting.

If the aim is to quote for the shell, shell-quote-argument always did
the job for me.

-- 
Nico.