[PATCH] Properly quote Emacs' notmuch-command.
Thomas Schwinge
thomas at schwinge.name
Tue Jan 11 04:02:07 PST 2011
From: Thomas Schwinge <thomas_schwinge at mentor.com>
It happens that my notmuch-command may look like this:
(setq notmuch-command "~/Mentor Graphics/command/notmuch")
Most of the times, notmuch-command is passed to call-process which will simply
do the right thing, but there are a few other cases where it is fed through the
shell and thus needs to be properly quoted / escaped.
I'm not entirely sure that shell-quote-wildcard-pattern is the correct function
to be used. We can't use shell-quote-argument (which I first meant to use), as
that one will also escape the tilde (~). Next idea was to first resolve the
tilde, and then use shell-quote-argument. But I didn't find a suitable Emacs
function: we can't (unconditionally) use expand-file-name, as that one will
absolutize the filename: it will (wrongly) turn the default value `notmuch'
into `$CWD/notmuch'.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Schwinge <thomas at schwinge.name>
---
Hallo!
As stated above, if someone has (more Emacs knowledge and) a better
solution, please shout.
An additional item to conider: this solves the issue with tilde
expansion, but what about other shell magic like filename expansion
(globbing; which is what shell-quote-wildcard-pattern explicitly does
*not* quote / escape)?
Once we have determined what we actually want, is it OK to send a
testsuite patch to make it use such a ``nonstandard'' path, for catching
regressions early in the future?
GrüÃe,
Thomas
emacs/notmuch-lib.el | 4 ++--
emacs/notmuch-show.el | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-lib.el b/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
index dd180ee..fdeb32b 100644
--- a/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
+++ b/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ the user hasn't set this variable with the old or new value."
(let ((long-string
;; Trim off the trailing newline.
(substring (shell-command-to-string
- (concat notmuch-command " --version"))
+ (concat (shell-quote-wildcard-pattern notmuch-command) " --version"))
0 -1)))
(if (string-match "^notmuch\\( version\\)? \\(.*\\)$"
long-string)
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ the user hasn't set this variable with the old or new value."
"Return a value from the notmuch configuration."
;; Trim off the trailing newline
(substring (shell-command-to-string
- (concat notmuch-command " config get " item))
+ (concat (shell-quote-wildcard-pattern notmuch-command) " config get " item))
0 -1))
(defun notmuch-database-path ()
diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-show.el b/emacs/notmuch-show.el
index 3a60d43..820f90f 100644
--- a/emacs/notmuch-show.el
+++ b/emacs/notmuch-show.el
@@ -957,12 +957,12 @@ than only the current message."
(let (shell-command)
(if entire-thread
(setq shell-command
- (concat notmuch-command " show --format=mbox "
+ (concat (shell-quote-wildcard-pattern notmuch-command) " show --format=mbox "
(shell-quote-argument
(mapconcat 'identity (notmuch-show-get-message-ids-for-open-messages) " OR "))
" | " command))
(setq shell-command
- (concat notmuch-command " show --format=raw "
+ (concat (shell-quote-wildcard-pattern notmuch-command) " show --format=raw "
(shell-quote-argument (notmuch-show-get-message-id)) " | " command)))
(start-process-shell-command "notmuch-pipe-command" "*notmuch-pipe*" shell-command)))
--
tg: (b3caef1..) t/emcs-quote_notmuch-command (depends on: master)
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