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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Wilson Pete <Pete.Wilson@LPNT.net>
Cc: 37608@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37608: Patch for support in emacsclient for command-lline options in ALTERNATE_EDITOR breaks quoted paths on Windows
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 21:37:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d0fd7k0g.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SN6PR17MB2141D9D960ED1F02656D6680879F0@SN6PR17MB2141.namprd17.prod.outlook.com> (message from Wilson Pete on Thu, 3 Oct 2019 17:40:28 +0000)

> From: Wilson Pete <Pete.Wilson@LPNT.net>
> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 17:40:28 +0000
> 
> The patch for bug #25082 appears to have broken quoted paths being passed to emacsclientw on Windows.
> 
> w32_execvp doesn’t handle this because it doesn’t quote the path argument to execvp (ultimately to CreateProcess?).
> 
> So the patch prevents any possibility of passing a path with spaces as the alternate editor on Windows.

Could you please show a (non-)working example where this problem can
be seen?

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-03 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-03 17:40 bug#37608: Patch for support in emacsclient for command-lline options in ALTERNATE_EDITOR breaks quoted paths on Windows Wilson Pete
2019-10-03 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-10-03 19:49 ` Wilson Pete
2019-10-05  7:34   ` Eli Zaretskii

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