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python.el tries to undo shell quoting with split-string-and-unquote

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, 20744 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, zhangda82 <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#20744: shell-quote-argument in Emacs 24.5 and Emacs 25 on Windows cannot figure out path correctly
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 19:22:31 +0300

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
> Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org,  20744 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  zhangda82 <at> gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 17:14:33 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> >> That doesn't include ":", but then there's those "really weird shells",
> >> >> whatever they may be...
> >> >
> >> > Perhaps we could have a branch for Bash only.
> >> 
> >> Tramp would happily join that branch, for "really weird shells on a
> >> remote host".
> >
> > Meaning you are for such a change, or against it?  (Sorry, it wasn't
> > clear from what you said.)
> 
> Bash is always a pain to handle, there are exceptions in Tramp's code
> for that. But having a branch for this is not realistic for Tramp,
> because Tramp doesn't distinguish remote shells, it only expects that
> they speak a bourne-shell dialect.
> 
> My message was rather a sigh than a request.

How about Stefan's suggestion to stop quoting the colon and see if
anybody hollers?  Are you okay with that, or will you holler?

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