"Return from STRING the NTH to MTH arguments.
NTH and/or MTH can be nil, which means the last argument.
Returned arguments are separated by single spaces.
-We assume whitespace separates arguments, except within quotes.
+We assume whitespace separates arguments, except within quotes
+and except for a space or tab that immediately follows a backslash.
Also, a run of one or more of a single character
in `comint-delimiter-argument-list' is a separate argument.
Argument 0 is the command name."
(let* ((first (if (and (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
(w32-shell-dos-semantics))
"[^ \n\t\"'`]+\\|"
- "[^ \n\t\"'`\\]+\\|\\\\[\"'`\\]+\\|"))
+ "[^ \n\t\"'`\\]+\\|\\\\[\"'`\\ \t]+\\|"))
(argpart (concat first
"\\(\"\\([^\"\\]\\|\\\\.\\)*\"\\|\
'[^']*'\\|\