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23.0.90; `system-type' test in `shell-quote-wildcard-pattern'

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Message #35 received at 2607-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 2607-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: Re: bug#2607: 23.0.90; `system-type' test in `shell-quote-wildcard-pattern'
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:27:04 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: 2607 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,  drew.adams <at> oracle.com
> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:02:30 -0400
> 
> I think I understand: idempotency is actually not important, and is not
> really what is meant by the 2 lines.
> Indeed (shell-quote-wildcard-pattern "\\'foo*") => "\\\\'foo*"
> so it's not idempotent: \ can be used to escape [*?\] but not [;<>&|()'"#$].
> 
> How 'bout something like:
> 
>    Quote characters special to the shell in pattern, leave wildcards alone.
> 
>    PATTERN should be a file-name wildcard pattern suitable for the
>    underlying filesystem.  PATTERN can use \ under Unix and " in Windows
>    to quote wildcard characters.

I installed something similar.

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