Re: [PATCH] Add shell-quasiquote.

[David Kastrup]

Random832 <address@hidden> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> That's also my point, exactly.  Any code in Emacs should use standard
>> APIs, and if those APIs need to be fixed, they should be fixed
>> regardless.  But the need to be fixed does not mean the APIs should be
>> bypassed.
>
> Strictly speaking, Emacs doesn't *have* an API for "quote for POSIX
> shells", so it's not being bypassed. The objection to the feature of
> only supporting POSIX shells is substantive but has little to do with
> bypassing an API.

I don't call it a good-weather feature of a car when the wind-screen
wipers are broken.

-- 
David Kastrup