[PATCH] Re: Maxima code blocks does not work in windows revisited

[Leo Butler]

On Thu, Nov 03 2022, Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/11/2022 17:01, Fraga, Eric wrote:
>> On Thursday,  3 Nov 2022 at 09:35, Max Nikulin wrote:
>>> maxima --very-quiet -r "batchload(\"c:\\Temp\\maxima-XXXXXX.max\")"$
>> Should the $ not be within the quotes?
>
> Does "$" have any special meaning in cmd.exe? I do not mind that it
> should be inside `format' first argument.
>
> I do not have a Windows machine to test and not motivated enough to
> try Emacs in wine.

Max, a minor modification of the test you sent earlier shows that when
system-type is ms-dos, the placement does not matter (the command-line
is the same); but for gnu/linux, placement matters and Eric is right
(the command-lines are not the same and the dollar sign needs to be
escaped).

I have attached a patch that puts the dollar sign in the right place for
both. The existing tests pass when running 'make test'.

Leo

0001-lisp-ob-maxima.el-correct-placement-of-in-command-st.patch
Description: patch.patch