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From: | Glenn Morris |
Subject: | bug#20744: shell-quote-argument in Emacs 24.5 and Emacs 25 on Windows cannot figure out path correctly |
Date: | Sun, 07 Jun 2015 20:07:10 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Anyway, if we think ':' doesn't need to be quoted, how about removing > it from the Posix branch of shell-quote-argument? The comment there says "This should be safe enough even for really weird shells." That's a much broader question than just Bash! :) But I thought of an example that affects Bash: scp localfile remotehost: If "localfile" contains ":", things will get confused. So it's probably best to leave it as-is.
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