Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote.

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Wolfgang Jenkner <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:54:51 +0200
>> 
>> > I guess patches to extend shell-quote-argument to cover more shells on
>> > Posix systems should be welcome, and should get higher priority than
>> > we thought.
>> 
>> I beg to differ: IMHO, on Unix-like systems, there's no point for
>> `shell-command' and friends to support anything but /bin/sh, which is
>> certainly a Bourne shell and hopefully reasonably POSIX compliant.
>
> I see your point.  However, this is contrary to a very old and
> documented behavior.  Would such a change be acceptable?

I think that M-x shell RET (namely interactive shells) should also cover
csh and their ilk, and I consider it quite likely that
shell-quote-argument will be called when preparing arguments to paste
into the comint window.

So I suspect that things are not as easy as that.

-- 
David Kastrup