GNU bug report logs - #19350
24.4; Incorrect quoting of %-signs for Windows command shell

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Demetrios Obenour <demetriobenour <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:45:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: confirmed, wontfix

Found in version 24.4

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Demi Obenour <demiobenour <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 19350 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: bug#19350: #19350 24.4; Incorrect quoting of %-signs for Windows command shell
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 15:38:52 -0400

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I think we can assume that it will keep working in future versions of
cmd.exe, as MS won't break backwards compatibility here, and it seems to be
a consequence of documented parsing rules.

But yes, it would be great to just skip the shell.  I don't think we should
replace it either.  Lisp should always pass an argument list when creating
a process.

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