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diff --git a/docs/changelog/2635.bugfix.rst b/docs/changelog/2635.bugfix.rst deleted file mode 100644 index a125880d..00000000 --- a/docs/changelog/2635.bugfix.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ -When parsing command lines, use ``shlex(..., posix=True)``, even on windows platforms, since non-POSIX mode does not -handle escape characters and quoting like a shell would. This improves cross-platform configurations without hacks or -esoteric quoting. - -To make this transition easier, on Windows, the backslash path separator will not treated as an escape character unless -it preceeds a quote, whitespace, or another backslash chracter. This allows paths to mostly be written in single or -double backslash style. - -Note that **double-backslash will no longer be escaped to a single backslash in substitutions**, instead the double -backslash will be consumed as part of command splitting, on either posix or windows platforms. - -In some instances superfluous double or single quote characters may be stripped from arg arrays in ways that do not -occur in the default windows ``cmd.exe`` shell - by :user:`masenf`. |