[latex3-commits] [latex3/l3sys-query] 2e: correct the description of quote handling (91f2180)

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Repository : https://github.com/latex3/l3sys-query
On branch  : 2e
Link       : https://github.com/latex3/l3sys-query/commit/91f21809016456abb03373369d742287c2c7ec00

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commit 91f21809016456abb03373369d742287c2c7ec00
Author: David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Mar 11 11:22:42 2024 +0000

    correct the description of quote handling


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91f21809016456abb03373369d742287c2c7ec00
 l3sys-query.tex | 19 +++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/l3sys-query.tex b/l3sys-query.tex
index 9bbe96c..1b8d410 100644
--- a/l3sys-query.tex
+++ b/l3sys-query.tex
@@ -230,21 +230,28 @@ allow quoting of wildcards from the shell in a platform-neutral manner,
 \texttt{l3sys-query} will strip exactly one set of |'| characters around each
 argument before further processing.
 
-Restricted shell escape prevents shell expansion of wildcards entirely, but
-also strips out all |'| characters from arguments. Thus a \TeX{} call such as
+Restricted shell escape prevents shell expansion of wildcards entirely. On
+non-Windows systems, it does this by replacing all \verb|"| by |'| and ensuring
+that each argument is |'| quoted to ensure further expansion.
+Thus a \TeX{} call such as
 \begin{verbatim}
   \input|"l3sys-query ls '*.png'"
 \end{verbatim}
-will work as it is converted to one without the |'| characters (the surrounding
-|"| are needed to allow space-separated arguments to be passed as a whole to
-|\input|).
+will work if |--shell-escape| is used as the argument is passed directly to the shell, but
+in restricted shell escape will give an error such as:
+\begin{verbatim}
+! I can't find file `"|l3sys-query ls '*.png'"'.
+\end{verbatim}
+The \LaTeX\ interfaces described below adust the quoting used depending on the |shell-escape| status.
 
 \section{The \LaTeX{} interface\label{sec:expl3}}
 
 Using \texttt{l3sys-query} is not tied to access \emph{via} \pkg{expl3}, but
 this is the preferred approach for the \LaTeX{} Team. Details of how to use
 \texttt{l3sys-query} as an \pkg{expl3} programmer will covered in
-\texttt{interface3.pdf} once the macro code is finalised.
+\texttt{interface3.pdf} once the macro code is finalised. A document level interface
+will also be provided via a \pkg{l3sys-query} package which is based on the \pkg{expl3}
+interface and will be described here.
 
 \end{documentation}