Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer)
> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 00:22:33 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > On POSIX shells, shell-quote-argument is just as safe as
> > shqq--quote-string, and on non-POSIX shells it works better. So it's a
> > win, in both readability and in portability, to use
> > shell-quote-argument.
> 
> Fixing it does not seem easy at all given I can't trust
> shell-quote-argument.

You can trust it.

> And please be realistic in the amount of trust we can put on the
> complicated implementations for non-Unix shells.  I can't judge them
> myself since I don't know the syntax of those shells at all.  Does
> anyone here know their syntax comprehensively, or checked the
> implementation against the documentation of those shells?

Yes, we do.  Yes, we have.

> (Actually, those things should be documented for shell-quote-argument,
> and my documentation would point there.)

What do you think should be documented there that is missing?