Re: emacsclient gets error with ALTERNATE_EDITOR on Windows 8.1

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.windows
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:35:16 +0000
> From:  <[email protected]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
> 
> 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.
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