Re: Surprising behaviour of 'append' with strings

[Emanuel Berg]

R. Diez wrote:

> I want to build a list of command-line arguments to run
> a program. Each element of the list must be a string.
>
> The commands are complex shell invocations with nested shell
> commands.

Isn't it better to use a shell script language then?

In Elisp maybe you can use `let' and then
`shell-command-to-string' but even that is an uphill
battle IMO ...

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