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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2015-10-18 20:08:32 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2015-10-18 20:08:32 +0300 |
| commit | b03150f6ebea1a49f7061a3caf184c6e7e6490c7 (patch) | |
| tree | 9a74c5ab178ded8be77aecc2961985a937987aee | |
| parent | 1106f317ab064264adbc07001bdc6940ad07f4d4 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-b03150f6ebea1a49f7061a3caf184c6e7e6490c7.tar.gz | |
Fix doc string of 'shell-quote-argument'
* lisp/subr.el (shell-quote-argument): Doc fix. (Bug#21702)
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/subr.el b/lisp/subr.el index e1769074ee5..c903ee3c758 100644 --- a/lisp/subr.el +++ b/lisp/subr.el @@ -2711,7 +2711,10 @@ Note: :data and :device are currently not supported on Windows." (declare-function w32-shell-dos-semantics "w32-fns" nil) (defun shell-quote-argument (argument) - "Quote ARGUMENT for passing as argument to an inferior shell." + "Quote ARGUMENT for passing as argument to an inferior shell. + +This function is designed to work with the syntax of your system's +standard shell, and might produce incorrect results with unusual shells." (cond ((eq system-type 'ms-dos) ;; Quote using double quotes, but escape any existing quotes in |