From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/32202 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Rene H. Larsen" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: `mm-quote-arg' and shell quoting in mailcap (was: Shouldn't...) Date: 15 Aug 2000 02:35:50 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <873dk7nyxl.fsf@worldonline.dk> References: <87n1moph1r.fsf@mharnois.workgroup.net> <87ya672i8q.fsf@mharnois.workgroup.net> <87bt30n4sf.fsf@mharnois.workgroup.net> <87hf8tc5hx.fsf@cachemir.echo-net.net> <87og303647.fsf@worldonline.dk> <2ng0ocmn6o.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> <87vgx7pdao.fsf@worldonline.dk> <87r97vp9vr.fsf@worldonline.dk> <87sns8oxpu.fsf_-_@delivery.cam.eu.citrix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168511 18403 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:48:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:48:31 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62045D051E for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 20:38:59 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAC27732; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:38:52 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:35:50 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA24801 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:35:37 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from fe170.worldonline.dk (fe170.worldonline.dk [212.54.64.199]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 2EF2FD051E for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 20:36:07 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 8120 invoked by uid 0); 15 Aug 2000 00:36:04 -0000 Original-Received: from 26.ppp1-1.odn.worldonline.dk (HELO izzlazz.ournet.dk) (212.54.78.154) by fe170.worldonline.dk with SMTP; 15 Aug 2000 00:36:04 -0000 Original-Received: from renehl.ournet.dk [192.168.0.1] by izzlazz.ournet.dk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13OUhs-0000c3-00; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 02:35:52 +0200 Original-Received: from renehl by renehl.ournet.dk with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13OUhq-0004xd-00; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 02:35:50 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Toby Speight's message of "14 Aug 2000 13:04:29 +0100" Original-Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32202 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32202 Toby Speight writes: > 0> In article <87r97vp9vr.fsf@worldonline.dk>, > 0> Rene H. Larsen ("Rene") wrote: > > Rene> The workaround I use right now is to modify mm-quote-arg to only > Rene> quote single quotes (using the mildly hideous '"'"' hack). This [...] > I use ordinary \' like this Are you sure this actually works for file names containing single quotes? All the shells I have tried barf on this: $ echo 'foo\'bar' [...] > WIBNI if this kind of definition was automatically selected on Debian > systems? (or if the filenames were always translated to something > innocuous? That's the Right Thing IMO) I agree. For systems where the system mailcap is known to use consistent quoting, it would be really nice if Gnus would automagically choose the correct version of mm-quote-arg. -- Echelon bait: Waco, Texas Ft. Bragg Bosnia South Africa Albania SDI Delta Force plutonium Soviet Marxist DES Mossad constitution Clinton Rule Psix