Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote.

[Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer)
>> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 00:22:33 +0200
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> 
>> > On POSIX shells, shell-quote-argument is just as safe as
>> > shqq--quote-string, and on non-POSIX shells it works better. So it's a
>> > win, in both readability and in portability, to use
>> > shell-quote-argument.
>> 
>> Fixing it does not seem easy at all given I can't trust
>> shell-quote-argument.
>
> You can trust it.
>
>> And please be realistic in the amount of trust we can put on the
>> complicated implementations for non-Unix shells.  I can't judge them
>> myself since I don't know the syntax of those shells at all.  Does
>> anyone here know their syntax comprehensively, or checked the
>> implementation against the documentation of those shells?
>
> Yes, we do.  Yes, we have.
>
>> (Actually, those things should be documented for shell-quote-argument,
>> and my documentation would point there.)
>
> What do you think should be documented there that is missing?

I just filed bug #21702 about this.

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=21702

Taylan