Re: Question about start-process and argument list

[Eric Abrahamsen]

chad <yandros@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 4:23 PM Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Kind of sounds like I should be using `start-process-shell-command'
>> again! As I understand it, this is its main selling point.
>>
>
> Have you by chance looked at shell-quote-argument or
> split-string-shell-command?  It's been a while since I had to deal with
> this, but I recall the former being helpful then, and it looks like it may
> be meant to handle your situation.

But, to be clear, my problem doesn't seem to be escaping/unescaping
shell-specific characters, as far as I can see that isn't causing the
trouble. It's passing in the search query as a single argument, when it
contains spaces. It works fine when it's a single string with no spaces
in it.