GNU bug report logs - #16005
inferior-lisp and filenames with spaces

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Steven Litvintchouk <sdlitvin <at> earthlink.net>

Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 23:20:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 16005 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Steven Litvintchouk <sdlitvin <at> earthlink.net>
Cc: 16005 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16005: 24.3;
 function inferior-lisp needs patch to work with certain filenames in
 Windows-NT
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 17:12:16 -0500

Steven Litvintchouk wrote:

> But Microsoft Windows allows spaces in filenames

I think every platform that Emacs supports allows spaces in filenames;
just that people on non-MS Windows platforms generally know to avoid
such filenames. ;)

> I patched this to check if we're on Windows-nt, and if so, to call
> split-string with SEPARATORS bound to "[\f\t\n\r\v]+"

That doesn't work, consider eg

/bin/lisp --some-arg

versus

/Program Files/lisp
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