[Bug-AUCTeX] Quoting on Windows XP

[Reinhard Kotucha]

Hi, 
I'm using the emacs+auctex snapshot from October 2006 on Windows XP at
work.  This is the same version I uploaded to the TeXLive repository
after some testing.  It's now in the support directory on the
TeXLive-2007 DVD.  I did not encounter any problem yet.

Today I installed the version from March 24 and had been surprized
that I cannot launch the Adobe Reader any more.

The difference is that in former releases the command to launch AR was

    start foo.pdf

and now it is

    start "foo.pdf"

The latter does not work due to bugs in Microsoft's command line
interface or in start.exe.  I tried it on the command line and it
doesn't work there either.  When I do not quote the file name it works
as expected, but if I quote it, another shell window pops up and
nothing else happens.

You can also try XP's command line completion:
Suppose there is a file "foo bar.pdf".  If you say

    start f

and press the TAB key (probably many times), you'll get 

    start "foo bar.pdf"

so I think that using double quotes is appropriate.  But if you
execute the command you don't get what you expect.

I suppose that the only way to allow spaces in file names is to avoid
the command line interface, i.e. pass command line arguments as a list
instead of a string.

Apparently auctex quotes file names in order to allow spaces therein.
It seems that Microsoft is still unable to support this.

Unless there is a better solution I recommend to remove the quotes.
At the moment I have to get stuck with an older release.  

Nevertheless, many thanks to Ralf for his great work.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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