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29.0.92; emacsclient-mail.desktop fails due to complicated escaping

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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: sbaugh <at> catern.com, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: sbaugh <at> janestreet.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 65902 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65902: 29.0.92; emacsclient-mail.desktop fails due to complicated escaping
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 09:52:19 -0700

On 10/22/2023 12:53 PM, sbaugh <at> catern.com wrote:
> Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:
> 
>> On Okt 22 2023, sbaugh <at> catern.com wrote:
>>
>>> +Exec=emacsclient --alternate-editor= --eval '(message-mailto (pop server-eval-args-left))' %u
>>
>> This line is not valid according to the specs.
> 
> Is that because of the single quotes surrounding spaces?  Are quoted
> strings not permitted?

According to the spec[1], you should use double quotes instead:

> Quoting must be done by enclosing the argument between double quotes and escaping the double quote character, backtick character ("`"), dollar sign ("$") and backslash character ("\") by preceding it with an additional backslash character.

Otherwise, I think what you have above is ok.

[1] 
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s07.html

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