bug#64584: 29.0.91; skeleton: cannot pass `str' as argument to some functions

[Stefan Monnier]

> In a skeleton template, it is not possible to pass `str' as an argument
> to some functions.

It is, but only after it appeared "naked" in the skeleton.

`skeleton-insert` says:

        str     first time: read a string according to INTERACTOR
                then: insert previously read string once more

which indeed doesn't explicitly tell you tht you're doing something
wrong, but it does imply that `str` doesn't just hold a string, or at
least not initially.

>     (define-skeleton test-skeleton ""
>       (file-relative-name (read-file-name "P: "))
>       (shell-quote-argument str))

It should work if you can change your skeleton to something like:

    (define-skeleton test-skeleton ""
      (file-relative-name (read-file-name "P: "))
      str
      (shell-quote-argument str))

where that first use of `str` will convert it from something that "read
a string according to INTERACTOR" to the actual string.


        Stefan