Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: Spaces in file names on Windows

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2005-08-13) writes:

> [[ is bash-only.  Don't use it.

Note that this is not an extended bash test command
([[ <condition> ]]) but a quoted simple test command
([ <condition> ]).  Is [ <condition> ] a bashism as well?

> And iteration seems like overkill.

That's just fallout of my limited knowledge. (c:

> AC_DEFUN(AC_SHELL_QUOTIFY_ONCE,
> [
>    case :$1: in $quotified_vars) ;;
>    *) AC_SHELL_QUOTIFY([$1])
>       export quotified_vars=$quotified_vars:$1:
>    esac
> ]

Hm, slightly nicer than my version. (c;

> Perhaps we should make something like
> AC_EXPORT_QUOTIFIED
>
> which will export and protect the variable?  AC_SHELL_QUOTIFY would
> then always check whether there is a protection active.
>
> I mean, we don't have to protect against multiple quotification except
> in the export case, right?

Yes.  With my proposal you would have used AC_SHELL_QUOTIFY_ONCE only
on the exported variables as well.  Your suggestion is a bit more
specialized and it makes the intention clearer, which is good.

-- 
Ralf