From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Cc: 25082@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25082: [PATCH] Add support to emacsclient for command-lline options in ALTERNATE_EDITOR/--alternate-editor
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 19:48:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834lsp2e9f.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOnWdogx--YFH0-jSg1EL3Yn8qMqH1W4c9NOUY9dzH1XdujWow@mail.gmail.com> (message from Reuben Thomas on Tue, 29 Aug 2017 23:29:24 +0100)
> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 23:29:24 +0100
> Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, 25082@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> I attach an updated patch with the documentation changes (to manual and NEWS).
LGTM, thanks.
> The issue I alluded to is a subtle misfeature in the Windows
> implementation of execvp (and similar Posix functions): the arguments
> you pass via the argv array get concatenated into a single
> command-line string, and that string is passed to the Windows system
> API that actually invokes the program. So argv[] elements that
> include whitespace need to be quoted(!) to work correctly on
> MS-Windows. (Of course, this quoting must be ifdef'ed away for Posix
> platforms.)
>
> I see, thanks for the explanation. Doesn't w32_execvp handle this already?
Indeed, it does. Thanks for reminding we already had that covered.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-30 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-01 15:31 bug#25082: [PATCH] Add support to emacsclient for command-lline options in ALTERNATE_EDITOR/--alternate-editor Reuben Thomas
2016-12-02 10:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-02 15:31 ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-08 23:10 ` Glenn Morris
2016-12-09 13:44 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-20 21:08 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-22 0:16 ` Glenn Morris
2017-08-22 0:23 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-22 0:52 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-23 22:59 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-27 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-28 10:15 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-29 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-29 15:49 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-29 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-29 22:29 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-30 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-08-30 21:01 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-30 21:02 ` bug#25082: Patch installed Reuben Thomas
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