On Wed, Mar 19 2014, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 19 2014, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
>>
>>> +
>>> +# Positional parameters.
>>> +while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
>>> +    ELISP="${ELISP} (message-goto-to) (insert \"${1}, \")"
>>> +    shift
>>> +done
>>
>> for arg; do
>
> for arg in $@; ?


Yes, that is less obfuscated version of that, whichever you feel more
comfortable with... for more discussion about the alternatives here see:
  http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/bourne_args/
(but don't look that -- it is unnecessary and only causes headache ;D)


>> maybe arg=${arg//\\/\\\\}; arg=${arg//"/\\"}; 
>>
>> ${parameter/pattern/string} -- Pattern substition in bash manual.
>
> I'm inclined to go with "don't do that then" ;)

$ bash -c 'arg=${0//\\/\\\\}; echo ${arg//\"/\\\"}' 'this"is\a test'
this\"is\\a test
$ zsh -c 'arg=${0//\\/\\\\}; echo ${arg//\"/\\\"}' 'this"is\a test' 
this\"is\a test 
$ ksh -c 'arg=${0//\\/\\\\}; echo ${arg//\"/\\\"}' 'this"is\a test' 
this\"is\\a test

Interestigly zsh on Scientific Linux 6.2 fails here (zsh 4.3.10) -- I tried
various tricks and none helped. Hmm also zsh 4.3.17 on Ubuntu 12.04 fails.
zsh 5.0.2 on Fedora 20 works OK. ksh & bash installed on all these 3
systems work OK (and also bash 3.2.51... on Mac OS X). 

IMO this quoting should be done -- so I can send you email with:

$ notmuch-emacs-mua '"Jani Nikula" <jani@nikula.org>'


Tomi