GNU bug report logs - #65902
29.0.92; emacsclient-mail.desktop fails due to complicated escaping

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> catern.com>
Cc: 65902 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65902: 29.0.92; emacsclient-mail.desktop fails due to complicated escaping
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:50:26 +0300

> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 14:08:01 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> catern.com>
> Cc: 65902 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Sep 13, 2023 09:26, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>  > I am not sure what you're suggesting.  Can you show how the equivalent 
>  > of: 
>  > 
>  > emacsclient --apply message-mailto -- %u 
>  > 
>  > would work with that design? 
> 
>    emacsclient --qeval '(message-mailto %u)'
> 
> I don't think this can work in general for arbitrary user input: what if %u is replaced with something
> that contains parentheses?

They are inside '..', so the only one who'd care is Emacs, not the
shell.  In which case it's the job of whoever provides the value for
%u to handle that.

And anyway, how is that different from the same problem happening with
your suggested --funcall or --apply? they will bump into the same
issues.

>  Let's not do that this time, okay?
> 
> Agreed, I think we reached a consensus in that bug and now I am implementing that consensus.

AFAIU, there was no consensus reached there, so I'm unsure what are
you alluding to here.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.