Re: VC/RCS: Checking in files remotely & change comments.

[Daniel Pittman]

On 11 Dec 1999, Kai Gro�johann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> "DE WEERD, Mario" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>> Do C-x v v (vc-next-action).
>> Type a comment of multiple lines.
>> Do C-c C-c
>> 
>> Look at the files content.
> 
> Hm.  Hm.  Hmmmm.
> 
> (shell-quote-argument "test\ntest2\ntest3") returns
> "test\\\ntest2\\\ntest3", and if I type
> 
> $ echo test\
> test2\
> test3
> 
> then I get "testtest2test3" as output.  I think this means that
> shell-quote-argument has got a bug.  What do you think?

I think you are right. It should definitely be preserving the newline in
the argument.

        Daniel

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