Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote.

[Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") writes:
>
>> address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") writes:
>>
>>> This is for ELPA.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> Here's a version with slightly improved documentation and a clearer
>> reasoning for why shell-quote-argument is avoided.
>>
>> Eli refused to clarify the safety guarantees of shell-quote-argument in
>> bug#21702, and after all it has significantly different semantics anyway
>> (it doesn't quote shell keywords like 'if'),
>
> Uh, why should it?
>
> echo if
>
> works just fine. So does
>
> /bin/echo if
>
> The only position where "if" is somewhat special is in command position
> and that's not what shell-quote-argument is for.

It was not criticism of shell-quote-argument (those are separate).
Indeed it quotes arguments.  My variant also quotes things that may be
the name of the command and not an argument.

> Seriously, try getting used to the idea that Emacs has not been written
> by idiots who would not manage to encounter or analyze basic bugs in
> 10 years of usage of a very frequently encountered function and that
> you'll whip up something better within a minute.
>
> That's just "not invented here" syndrome.

Don't put words in my mouth please.  The topic has been discussed in
length on the bug report page anyway, I'm not continuing that.

Taylan