Re: emacsclient gets error with ALTERNATE_EDITOR on Windows 8.1
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
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> 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.