Subject: Re: bug#37608: Patch for support in emacsclient for command-lline options in ALTERNATE_EDITOR breaks quoted paths on Windows

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 21:37:35 +0300

> From: Wilson Pete <[email-masked]>
> 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.