Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote.

[Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer]

Artur Malabarba <address@hidden> writes:

> 2015-10-19 14:22 GMT+01:00 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
>
>     > 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.
>     
>
> Yes, please do use it. 
> Elpa is part of Emacs. Having some feature reimplemented there is like
> having the same function implemented twice inside Emacs.
> As much as possible, the code on the archive should extend the code
> released with the Emacs tarballs, not repeat it.

I went over the reasons extensively in the bug report.

I won't be using shell-quote-argument because it doesn't provide the
needed semantics.

Taylan