Subject: Re: bug#8531: 24.0.50; shell-quote-argument shouldn't escape special characters

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 02:15:36 -0400

> From: Thierry Volpiatto <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:03:30 +0200
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Thierry Volpiatto wrote:
> >
> >> So yes the problem is related only to eshell.
> >
> > Why do you want/need to call shell-quote-argument inside eshell?
> For compatibility with Windows filenames:

You mean, file names with embedded white space?  If not, what other
compatibility issues are there?