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29.0.92; emacsclient-mail.desktop fails due to complicated escaping

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
Cc: sbaugh <at> catern.com, 65902 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65902: 29.0.92; emacsclient-mail.desktop fails due to complicated escaping
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 22:13:18 +0300

> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
> Cc: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> catern.com>,  65902 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 11:23:06 -0400
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> Everyone in that thread agreed that something like this --apply design
> (which passes the strings verbatim to Emacs without evaling them) is
> what we need, they were just discussing the exact design, and in the end
> the design that everyone who posted agreed on, matched what I have
> implemented...

That's not my reading of that long discussion.

And I don't understand why we need to add any options to Emacs itself,
btw.  The suggestion to have some "symmetry" here was one of the
reasons that discussion got nowhere.  So let's learn from that
mistake, at least.

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