Subject: Re: bug#55016: 28.1; xref-find-references finds no matches if project dir contains a space

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2022 15:28:57 +0300

On 26.04.2022 15:00, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> If we just show those file names in some window, they don't need to be
> re-quoted, I think.  Quoting is only needed if the resulting file
> names will be passed to Lisp APIs to act on them.

They are not just shown. The file names are used when the user tries to 
visit the reference (e.g. with RET).