On 12/15/06, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Actually, a cleaner way of fixing this would be to have a
> WINDOWSNT-only wrapper for execvp, called, say w32_execvp, that does
> TRT with quoting the arguments.

You like this one better, then?

                    /L/e/k/t/u


Index: lib-src/emacsclient.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lib-src/emacsclient.c,v
retrieving revision 1.98
diff -u -2 -r1.98 emacsclient.c
--- lib-src/emacsclient.c	30 Nov 2006 22:49:38 -0000	1.98
+++ lib-src/emacsclient.c	15 Dec 2006 11:49:57 -0000
@@ -299,4 +299,35 @@

 
+#ifdef WINDOWSNT
+
+/*
+  execvp() wrapper for Windows.
+  Quotes arguments with embedded spaces.
+*/
+int
+w32_execvp (path, argv)
+     char *path;
+     char **argv;
+{
+  int i;
+
+  argv[0] = (char *) alternate_editor;
+
+  for (i = 0; argv[i]; i++)
+    if (strchr (argv[i], ' '))
+      {
+	char *quoted = alloca (strlen (argv[i]) + 3);
+	sprintf (quoted, "\"%s\"", argv[i]);
+	argv[i] = quoted;
+      }
+
+  return execvp (path, argv);
+}
+
+#undef execvp
+#define execvp w32_execvp
+
+#endif /* WINDOWSNT */
+
 /*
   Try to run a different command, or --if no alternate editor is
@@ -311,7 +342,5 @@
     {
       int i = optind - 1;
-#ifdef WINDOWSNT
-      argv[i] = (char *)alternate_editor;
-#endif
+
       execvp (alternate_editor, argv + i);
       message (TRUE, "%s: error executing alternate editor \"%s\"\n",