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Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command? |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:26:00 +0200 |
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
> address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:57:50 -0400
> >>
> >> I guess I could be convinced by example code where the use of the "multiple
> >> arg feature" makes the code simpler (without introducing extra bugs).
>
> > Define ``make the code simpler'', and I will try to think if there is
> > an example of that.
>
> The notion of what is simpler is clearly objective and we may never agree,
That is exactly why I asked for _your_ notion of ``simpler''.
> I just honestly can't think of any case where the "multiple args feature"
> can be used without either introducing bugs, or just pushing the arguably
> strange behavior (of having a list of strings which will be concatenated
> by Emacs and re-split later differently by the shell) to the user of
> that code.
Well, the function exists in this form for many years (at least 12).
I'm guessing that the &rest args form was to make it similar to
start-process or something, but that's just a guess.
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, (continued)
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Stephen Leake, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Stefan Monnier, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/13
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Stefan Monnier, 2006/10/13
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/13
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Stefan Monnier, 2006/10/13
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/14
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Stefan Monnier, 2006/10/14
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Stefan Monnier, 2006/10/15
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/16
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Stefan Monnier, 2006/10/16
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Andreas Schwab, 2006/10/16
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Richard Stallman, 2006/10/16
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Richard Stallman, 2006/10/15
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, David Kastrup, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/12
- Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?, Richard Stallman, 2006/10/12