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Re: [h-e-w] emacsclient gets error with ALTERNATE_EDITOR on Windows 8.1
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: [h-e-w] emacsclient gets error with ALTERNATE_EDITOR on Windows 8.1 |
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Tue, 22 Apr 2014 20:06:23 +0300 |
> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:35:16 +0000
> From: <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
>
> Normally the presence of quotes does no harm.
It does do harm when the quotes are passed verbatim to an API that
invokes programs and expects a file name. File names on Windows
cannot include quote characters.
> I am sure it would be possible to make emacsclient more robust in this
> situation.
It's possible, but I don't think it's a good idea, because it will
facilitate proliferation of incorrect settings. And who knows what
that means in terms of security and privacy.