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28.1; xref-find-references finds no matches if project dir contains a space

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Message #22 received at 55016 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Peter Povinec <spepo.42 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
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 10:57:29 -0700

On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 10:37 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
> 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))

That works! Both 'space dir' and 'nospace' dir cases work the same way now.

BTW, the symlinks are not essential to my recipe. You can instead
create two new
directories and copy in xref.el in Step 1.

Thanks for your help and super fast response.
Peter

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