Re: shell-command - missing shell-quote-argument for program?

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:34:04 +0200
> > From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> >
> > Should not the program name be quoted by `shell-quote-argment' when it 
> > is possible?
> >     
>
> Only when Emacs generates the program name itself.  When the program
> comes from the user typing its name (typically, into the minibuffer),
> it's the user's responsibility to quote whatever arguments need that,
> precisely as she would when typing the command at the shell's prompt.
> (Stefan pointed out one situation where the latter behavior is quite
> necessary, but there are other similar cases as well.)
>   
Thanks, I see. Is that pointed out somewhere in the manual already?

But this does not change the need for quoting the file argument in those 
cases I pointed out. I am however not quite sure about what to do so I 
would like some suggestions.