On 1/31/24 6:05 PM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
The first sentence under EXPANSION may make you think otherwise: Expansion is performed on the command line after it has been split into words. There are seven kinds of expansion performed: brace expansion, tilde expansion, parameter and variable expansion, command substitution, arithmetic expansion, word splitting, and pathname expansion.The third sentence, after this, corrects this: After these expansions are performed, quote characters present in the original word are removed unless they have been quoted themselves (quote removal). That sentence could also be placed right after the first.
I can rearrange things, but it seems clear already.
Returning to `shell-expand-line'. As end user I would expect that, running shell-expand-line then accept-line, would do the same as just an accept-line.
Why would you expect this? You have deliberately introduced an extra expansion step, similar to using `eval'.
I think that escaping is needed after quote removal in shell-expand-line.
No, that would be another function.
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