Re: New Flymake rewrite in emacs-26

[Stefan Monnier]

> Good to now, but I've scratched the flymake-gcc-heroic-unescape function
> for now.  It would be nice to have some portable version of this though:
> a function taking a string understood by a certain shell and breaking it
> up into arguments suitable for a shellless make-process.

Of course, it's an impossible task in general.
Think of a shell strings such as

    "sed 's/a/b/' <$< | sort -u >$@"
or
    "for f in $</*; do blabla; done"


-- Stefan