Re: Question about start-process and argument list

[Bruno Barbier]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> 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.

But, if you go the `start-process-shell-command' way, shell escaping is
going to be *your* problem (for any possible meaning of shell).

And, in this case, you should really consider using
`shell-quote-argument'.


Bruno