On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 08:34:20AM +0800, Sze Howe Koh wrote: > On 3 April 2014 06:23, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com> wrote: > > Nor on Windows's prompt: > > C:\>echo """hello""" > > """hello""" > > > > That commit has been there since the Qt public history started. It's even > > documented as such (I had to look it up, I didn't know): > > http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qprocess.html#start-3 > > > > But I don't know why it was done like that. It's highly surprising. If it > > weren't documented, I'd be tempted to just change behaviour and go for > > standard backslashing. > > That's highly unintuitive. The fact that it's Windows-only suggests > that it was put in to work around some issue (which may not be present > in modern versions of Windows). Candidate for change in Qt 6? > it's not windows-only. the quoting mechanism is inspired by how *some* windows applications interpret quoting. but it is generally speaking just stupid. when i finally get to it, i want to deprecate this custom single-string mode in favor of accepting native shell command lines, as qt creator's QtcProcess does.
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