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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 8531 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#8531: 24.0.50; shell-quote-argument shouldn't escape special characters
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:03:28 -0400

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com,  8531 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:10:39 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > 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.

IMO, the reasons stated in those comments for not supporting escaped
non-special characters are bad a design decision.  Eshell should only
do that on Windows, and even then there should be a user option for
such behavior, the default being that the directory separator is a
forward slash.

IOW, Eshell should behave like a Posix shell, even on Windows.
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