GNU bug report logs - #8531
eshell backslash handling

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:24:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #38 received at 8531 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 8531 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#8531: 24.0.50;
	shell-quote-argument shouldn't escape special characters
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:10:39 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> He doesn't.  But a literal Vid\éos (with the backslash typed by hand)
> doesn't work with Eshell, either.  Doesn't Eshell support the standard
> shell feature whereby a non-special character escaped by a backslash
> stands for itself?

From reading the comments in eshell-parse-backslash, no.
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