Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote.

[Jeff Clough]

Wolfgang Jenkner <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 21 2015, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> I guess patches to extend shell-quote-argument to cover more shells on
>> Posix systems should be welcome, and should get higher priority than
>> we thought.
>
> I beg to differ: IMHO, on Unix-like systems, there's no point for
> `shell-command' and friends to support anything but /bin/sh, which is
> certainly a Bourne shell and hopefully reasonably POSIX compliant.

I think this might not be true, depending on what "a Bourne shell" means
to some users. On many systems, /bin/sh is a symlink to whichever shell
floats the vendor's goat.

For example, on the Mint distribution of GNU/Linux, it's a symlink to
dash. While dash is a variant of a variant of the Bourne shell, can we
say with reasonable certainty that those variations don't impact
shell-quote-argument? (I don't know what they are myself, just posing
the question.)

Jeff