Re: Question about start-process and argument list

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Bruno Barbier <brubar.cs@gmail.com> writes:

> 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'.

Okay, thanks. Sounds like some testing is in order!