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bug#20744: shell-quote-argument in Emacs 24.5 and Emacs 25 on Windows ca


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: bug#20744: shell-quote-argument in Emacs 24.5 and Emacs 25 on Windows cannot figure out path correctly
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 10:03:44 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> Anyway, if we think ':' doesn't need to be quoted, how about removing
>> it from the Posix branch of shell-quote-argument?
> The comment there says "This should be safe enough even for really weird
> shells." That's a much broader question than just Bash! :)

Let's stop escaping the : and if/when someone comes up with a very weird
shell where this is a problem, we'll see what can be done.


        Stefan





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