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Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote.
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote. |
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Sun, 01 Nov 2015 22:39:34 +0200 |
> From: address@hidden (Kai Großjohann)
> Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2015 19:39:16 +0100
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> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
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> >> From: Random832 <address@hidden>
> >> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:18:49 -0400
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> >> It doesn't have a documented way for the caller to insist that the
> >> string be quoted for a POSIX shell rather than the user's shell.
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> > On what OS would that distinction be important, and why?
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> Tramp is an example: it runs a Bourne-ish shell on the remote host, and
> thus it would like to quote shell arguments for that shell.
That's easy to fix by adding an optional 2nd argument, I think.