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Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Quote file name args to start-process-shell-command?
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:30:52 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> The only thing the documentation says in that respect is
>
>      It follows that if
>      you include an arbitrary user-specified arguments in the command,
>      you should quote it with `shell-quote-argument' first, so that any
>      special shell characters do _not_ have their special shell
>      meanings.

Please don't do creative misquoting by combining things I actually
wrote with stuff of your own.  I did not quote the above, it is not
present in `start-process-shell-command's doc string, and you don't
give a source for the quote you attribute to me in a very misleading
manner.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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