bug#25082: [PATCH] Add support to emacsclient for command-lline options in ALTERNATE_EDITOR/--alternate-editor

[Reuben Thomas]

On 29 August 2017 at 17:49, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

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I attach an updated patch with the documentation changes (to manual and NEWS).​

 

The issue I alluded to is a subtle misfeature in the Windows
implementation of execvp (and similar Posix functions): the arguments
you pass via the argv array get concatenated into a single
command-line string, and that string is passed to the Windows system
API that actually invokes the program.  So argv[] elements that
include whitespace need to be quoted(!) to work correctly on
MS-Windows.  (Of course, this quoting must be ifdef'ed away for Posix
platforms.)

​I see, thanks for the explanation. Doesn't w32_execvp handle this already?

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