From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#28870: 25.3; find-file-at-point with spaces in path Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 19:43:26 +0300 Message-ID: <83y3o9endd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1bfdb618-94c0-c8cf-8c88-a1375a5805ad@bgc-jena.mpg.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1508258675 14795 195.159.176.226 (17 Oct 2017 16:44:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 16:44:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 28870@debbugs.gnu.org To: Guido Kraemer Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 17 18:44:30 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e4UyU-0001Qg-NX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:43:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51391) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e4Uxy-0001hR-PA; Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:43:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2885 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1e4Uxy-0003ua-6z; Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:43:42 -0400 In-reply-to: <1bfdb618-94c0-c8cf-8c88-a1375a5805ad@bgc-jena.mpg.de> (message from Guido Kraemer on Mon, 16 Oct 2017 21:35:58 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:138631 Archived-At: tags 28870 wishlist thanks > From: Guido Kraemer > 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.