Re: bad filename parsing in run-scheme

Re: bad filename parsing in run-scheme

[Richard Stallman]

    When run-scheme is called, the function scheme-args-to-list is called
    on the scheme-program-name.  Unfortunately, this function triggers on
    spaces, so we get the following behavior:

     (scheme-args-to-list "c:/program files/plt/mzscheme") -->
	 ("c:/program" "files/plt/mzscheme")

Could you please show us the entire series of precise commands
that you use to get to this point?

Please read the Bugs section in the Emacs manual, which provides
guidelines on how to write a bug report to give us the
necessary information so we can fix the bug.

Re: bad filename parsing in run-scheme

[Richard Stallman]

    If my .emacs file contains the following:

    (setq scheme-program-name 
	  "c:/program files/plt/mzscheme -f mzscheme_init.scm")

The variable name `scheme-program-name' implies that the value
must be a file name.  That string does not look like a file name.

The doc string of `run-scheme' suggests that the value can be a
command line rather than a file name.  That is an inconsistency,
and it's at the root of your problem.

Something ought to be done to clean this up.  Does anyone want to work
on it?