GNU bug report logs - #55016
28.1; xref-find-references finds no matches if project dir contains a space

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Peter Povinec <spepo.42 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 04:59:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.1

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #19 received at 55016 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Peter Povinec <spepo.42 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 55016 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55016: 28.1; xref-find-references finds no matches if project
 dir contains a space
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 20:36:55 +0300

> From: Peter Povinec <spepo.42 <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 10:06:28 -0700
> Cc: 55016 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> The patch actually makes it worse. Now even the 'nospacedir' case fails
> the same way (steps 6 and 7 in my recipe).

Actually, one more idea: perhaps the quoting makes things first
because your file names begin with "~/"?  In that case, doing
something like this instead should do better:

   (shell-quote-argument (expand-file-name rootdir))
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