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Re: shell-quote-argument: make it behave as if on Unix?
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Kai Großjohann |
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Re: shell-quote-argument: make it behave as if on Unix? |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:25:49 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> The Tramp package sends commands to a remote Unix host. These
> commands sometimes include filenames, so I pass those through
> shell-quote-argument.
>
> I think you should copy the code you want into your own source file
> and give it a different function name.
I've been thinking about this for a long time now, and I would like
to thank Richard for his very useful advice. All things considered,
I think he is right.
OT1H it would be nice to reuse code.
But OTOH, there are a number of issues with shell-quote-argument as
it currently stands, and Tramp can only use it after these have been
decided.
(1) [This issue has been discussed in the current thread.]
shell-quote-argument always quotes for the system that Emacs is
running on, but some applications (such as Tramp) might wish to
use the strings on a different system.
(2) shell-quote-argument does not deal well with newlines in strings.
For instance, it converts "a\nb" into "a\\\nb" which the (Bourne)
shell then reads as "ab". There is no method (that I know of)
which works for both Bourne-ish and c-ish shells on Unix.
So I will (maybe not today) change tramp-shell-quote-argument in such
a way that it does the work itself. After that, it is not urgent to
change the behavior of shell-quote-argument.
Are people interested in me working on changing shell-quote-argument
to deal with the above two issues? I'll look through the Lisp code
in Emacs to see that the change is upwardly¹ compatible.
kai
¹ Or is it "upwards-compatible"?
--
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- Re: shell-quote-argument: make it behave as if on Unix?, (continued)
- Re: shell-quote-argument: make it behave as if on Unix?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/04/12
- Re: shell-quote-argument: make it behave as if on Unix?, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/04/12
- Re: shell-quote-argument: make it behave as if on Unix?, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/13
- Re: shell-quote-argument: make it behave as if on Unix?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/04/13
- Re: shell-quote-argument: make it behave as if on Unix?, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/15
- Re: shell-quote-argument: make it behave as if on Unix?, Stefan Monnier, 2002/04/15
- Re: shell-quote-argument: make it behave as if on Unix?, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/16
Re: shell-quote-argument: make it behave as if on Unix?, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/11