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Re: Question about start-process and argument list
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tomas |
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Re: Question about start-process and argument list |
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Sat, 4 Feb 2023 07:40:12 +0100 |
On Sat, Feb 04, 2023 at 12:02:35AM +0100, Bruno Barbier wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
> > chad <yandros@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 4:23 PM Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Kind of sounds like I should be using `start-process-shell-command'
> >>> again! As I understand it, this is its main selling point.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Have you by chance looked at shell-quote-argument or
> >> split-string-shell-command? It's been a while since I had to deal with
> >> this, but I recall the former being helpful then, and it looks like it may
> >> be meant to handle your situation.
> >
> > But, to be clear, my problem doesn't seem to be escaping/unescaping
> > shell-specific characters, as far as I can see that isn't causing the
> > trouble. It's passing in the search query as a single argument, when it
> > contains spaces. It works fine when it's a single string with no spaces
> > in it.
>
> But, if you go the `start-process-shell-command' way, shell escaping is
> going to be *your* problem (for any possible meaning of shell).
>
> And, in this case, you should really consider using
> `shell-quote-argument'.
It /does/ help with whitespaces:
(shell-quote-argument "foo bar baz")
=> "foo\\ bar\\ baz"
Cheers
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- Question about start-process and argument list, Eric Abrahamsen, 2023/02/03
- Re: Question about start-process and argument list, Jean Louis, 2023/02/03
- Re: Question about start-process and argument list, Bruno Barbier, 2023/02/03
- Re: Question about start-process and argument list, Eric Abrahamsen, 2023/02/03
- Re: Question about start-process and argument list, chad, 2023/02/03
- Re: Question about start-process and argument list, Eric Abrahamsen, 2023/02/03
- Re: Question about start-process and argument list, Bruno Barbier, 2023/02/03
- Re: Question about start-process and argument list, Eric Abrahamsen, 2023/02/03
- Re: Question about start-process and argument list,
tomas <=
- Re: Question about start-process and argument list, Jean Louis, 2023/02/04
- Re: Question about start-process and argument list, Eric Abrahamsen, 2023/02/04
- Re: Question about start-process and argument list, Jean Louis, 2023/02/04
- Re: Question about start-process and argument list, Eric Abrahamsen, 2023/02/04