Re: Using `call-process-shell-command' in `process-lines'

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Nov 26, 2007 4:35 PM, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:

> Yes: the use of `args' in call-process-shell-command is strongly
> discouraged in my office because it doesn't do what it says it does: it
> doesn't treat each element of the list as an argument.  Instead it just
> concatenates the elements of the list and then passes the resulting
> single string to the shell which will split it into arguments accoring
> to its own rules.

Aside: that shouldn't cause compatibility problems, because
`process-lines' wasn't in subr.el until 2007-11-19; I don't think
there were many users of `process-line' from admin/admin.el or of
`authors-process-lines' in emacs-lisp/authors.el. But I could be
wrong...

             Juanma