[Emacs-diffs] emacs/lisp files.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/emacs
Module name:    emacs
Changes by:     Eli Zaretskii <eliz>    09/03/28 12:26:04

Modified files:
        lisp           : files.el 

Log message:
        (shell-quote-wildcard-pattern): Doc fix.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/emacs/lisp/files.el?cvsroot=emacs&r1=1.1041&r2=1.1042

Patches:
Index: files.el
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/files.el,v
retrieving revision 1.1041
retrieving revision 1.1042
diff -u -b -r1.1041 -r1.1042
--- files.el    21 Mar 2009 15:53:29 -0000      1.1041
+++ files.el    28 Mar 2009 12:26:04 -0000      1.1042
@@ -5254,12 +5254,14 @@
   "Quote characters special to the shell in PATTERN, leave wildcards alone.
 
 PATTERN is assumed to represent a file-name wildcard suitable for the
-underlying filesystem.  For Unix and GNU/Linux, the characters from the
-set [ \\t\\n;<>&|()'\"#$] are quoted with a backslash; for DOS/Windows, all
+underlying filesystem.  For Unix and GNU/Linux, each character from the
+set [ \\t\\n;<>&|()'\"#$] is quoted with a backslash; for DOS/Windows, all
 the parts of the pattern which don't include wildcard characters are
 quoted with double quotes.
-Existing quote characters in PATTERN are left alone, so you can pass
-PATTERN that already quotes some of the special characters."
+
+This function leaves alone existing quote characters (\\ on Unix and \"
+on Windows), so PATTERN can use them to quote wildcard characters that
+need to be passed verbatim to shell commands."
   (save-match-data
     (cond
      ((memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt cygwin))