Subject: bug#33344: 26.1; doc-view bounding-box recognition doesn't work on path names with spaces

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 13:12:40 -0500

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Thanks, but call-process won't DTRT if the default-directory is
> remote, would it?

s/call-process/process-file then

> And I wonder how many more subtle incompatibilities will such a change
> cause.  All that because we need to run a single string through
> shell-quote-argument (and not just enclose it in double quotes)?  Is
> it really worth it?

External processes should not be called through a shell unless they
really need that, and I see no evidence for that here.