Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote.

[Wolfgang Jenkner]

On Thu, Oct 22 2015, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> 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?

It would break shell functions and other stuff defined in some of the
init files belonging to $SHELL (even if sh is a symlink to bash).

So... the status quo is fine, perhaps after all?

In any case, I still think that on Unix-like systems there's little
point in supporting shells with different quoting conventions.