Re: [BUG] ob-shell: internal representation of cmdline arguments the same

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> I consider it as a kind of pitfall inconsistent with DWIM concept. An 
> idea of a kludge is below.
>
> #+begin_src sh :cmdline "1 2 3" :results verbatim
>    printf '%s\n' "$@"
> #+end_src
> ...
> -         (read cell))
> +         (propertize (read cell) 'org-babel-value 'quoted-string))
>          (t (org-no-properties cell))))

Well. See
https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/87wmyc1sud.fsf@localhost/

    >> Org cannot distinguish between
    >> 
    >> #+begin_src lang :foo value with spaces
    >> and
    >> #+begin_src lang :foo "value with spaces"
    >> 
    >> What we can do it make `org-babel-read' assign a text property to the
    >> resulting string when it is a string with quotes:
    >> 
    >> (org-babel-read "my file with quotes") ; => "my file with quotes"
    >> (org-babel-read "\"my file with quotes\"") ; => #("my file with quotes" 0 19 (org-babel-quote t))
    >> 
    >> Then, we can later use this information in `org-babel-merge-params'.
    >> We will not call `split-string', when 'org-babel-quote text property is
    >> present.
    >> Also, `split-string' won't work when we have something like
    >> 
    >> "yes \"my file with quotes\""
    >> 
    >> Instead, we should use
    >> (mapcar #'org-babel-read (org-babel-balanced-split "yes \"my file with quotes\"" ?\s))

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