bug#28870: 25.3; find-file-at-point with spaces in path

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

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> From: Guido Kraemer <gkraemer@bgc-jena.mpg.de>
> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 21:35:58 +0200
> 
> find-file-at-point does not work correctly if there are spaces in the 
> path, but also exists in emacs 26.0.90.1 to reproduce:
> 
> 1) create the file "~/new folder/New Folder/New Empty File"
> 2) emacs -q
> 3) go to *scratch* buffer
> 4) put the following in the scratch buffer:
> 
> "~/new folder/New Folder/New Empty File"
> ".emacs.d/init.el"
> 
> 5) place point on each and run `find-file-at-point`
> 
> Observed bevior: the second line works fine, the first line does not
> complete correctly, see also here:

find-file-at-point doesn't currently support file names with spaces,
it's a missing feature.  Patches to add that are welcome.

FWIW, I think if such a feature is added, it should support several
kinds of quoting: `..', '..', "..", ‘..’, etc., because we are talking
about free text, where such file names could be quoted in many ways.

Thanks.