Re: Maxima code blocks does not work in windows revisited

[Leo Butler]

On Wed, Nov 02 2022, Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 02/11/2022 11:47, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
>>>> (for reference, this email is a followup of
>>>> https://orgmode.org/list/CA+ikm3wqA33xP4c3pVV+F2a-gn0dbEzsdx6Vf2cRd+37+u6pBA@mail.gmail.com)
>
> Ihor, you recently applied an alternative patch to Org main
> branch. Emacs tree still has ob-maxima.el with single quotes around
> batchload.
>
> Nikolay Kudryavtsev. Re: [PATCH] ob-maxima.el: Fix execution on MS
> Windows. Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:54:10 +0300. 
> https://list.orgmode.org/8cd49b4c-9342-a77f-d665-402c41432b57@gmail.com
>
>> diff --git a/lisp/ob-maxima.el b/lisp/ob-maxima.el
>> index dba12d7b6..52423db18 100644
>> --- a/lisp/ob-maxima.el
>> +++ b/lisp/ob-maxima.el
>> @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ (defun org-babel-execute:maxima (body params)
>>              (cmd (format "%s --very-quiet -r %s$ %s"
>>                           org-babel-maxima-command
>>                               (shell-quote-argument
>> -                              (format "batchload(%S)" in-file))
>> +                              (format "\"batchload(\\\"%S\\\")\"" in-file))
>
> Notice that code in the message you cited has "%s" and does not have
> `shell-quote-argument'. Extra quotes may discard effect of existing 
> double pass escaping.

Yes, OP should try this solution first. If it fails, then there is
some problem in `shell-quote-argument' that needs to be fixed.

My 2c.
Leo