Re: [Chicken-hackers] [patch] utils: qs not escaping pipes

[Michele La Monaca]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> Why?  What does it buy us?  The only reason 'qs' is available is to
> safely escape arbitrary strings for the shell.

Suppose you want to implement some kind of command-line completion. In
this case backslash-escaping is a better fit, I think.

> I think the new version does a good job at this.
>
> Why should we provide a known-broken version?

Backslash-escaping is not broken per se. Let's say it's more difficult
to implement and the current implementation is not just there.

Regards,
Michele