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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: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 17:55:43 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83val93vrk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ef44ddac-cef6-9422-5912-969aba2c1418@sc3d.org> (message from Reuben Thomas on Wed, 23 Aug 2017 23:59:01 +0100)

> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 23:59:01 +0100
> Cc: 25082@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I've modified my patch to cope with this case. Rather than write a
> general escaping parser, or even one that just copes with escaping
> quotes (likely to be complex and buggy in C; and I couldn't find code I
> could easily lift from elsewhere), I simply allow " as a delimiter as
> well as space for quotes. Escaping quotes is not supported.
> 
> This suffices to cope with the common case on Windows of needing to
> quote a path containing spaces. It also copes with other simple cases.
> 
> Is this sufficient?

It could be, but I'm not sure I understand clearly what is supported
and what isn't.  Could you please add this information to the NEWS
entry and in more detail to the user manual?  I think having these
details in the manual is important regardless.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-27 14:55 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 [this message]
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
2017-08-30 21:01                   ` Reuben Thomas
2017-08-30 21:02 ` bug#25082: Patch installed Reuben Thomas

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