Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote.

[Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer)
>> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:35:26 +0200
>> 
>> Eli refused to clarify the safety guarantees of shell-quote-argument in
>> bug#21702
>
> No, Eli didn't refuse.  Eli pushed a change that clarified which
> shells shell-quote-argument was designed to support.
>
>> and after all it has significantly different semantics anyway
>> (it doesn't quote shell keywords like 'if'), so I will not be using
>> shell-quote-argument.
>
> Please do use shell-quote-argument.  Fixing any problems in
> shell-quote-argument is orthogonal to this package.  Inventing your
> own functions for that is not the right way.

I won't use shell-quote-argument so long as it doesn't provide the same
semantics.

Taylan