Re: Spaces in Windows pathnames

Robert Folland <[email protected]> writes:

> I have installed a Lisp implementation under "C:\Program Files" on
> Windows. 
> 
> ILISP does not accept a string with spaces in the file path, but it works
> if I put it under C:\tmp".
> 
> I could jost move stuff of course, but is there a way to use such
> path names?

I asked this on comp.emacs, and got this reply:

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From: David Kastrup <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Space in Windows file name
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Date: 27 Apr 2002 12:46:30 +0200
Organization: T-Online

Robert Folland <[email protected]> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Robert Folland wrote:
> > > 
> > > I am trying to set a file path with a string containing "C:\Program
> > > Files" and it does not work. A filename without spaces works.
> > 
> > What do you mean exactly by ``set a file path''?  What Emacs command or
> > function or variable are you trying to use, and how.  The details matter.
> 
> OK, this is what I mean:
> 
> (setq lispworks-program 
> ;      "c:/tmp/lww-ilisp-capi.exe")
>       "c:/Program Files/Xanalys/LispWorks/lww-ilisp-capi.exe")
> 
> The line commented out works, the other one does not... This is used
> when I start lispworks as an inferior Lisp-process from emacs with the
> ILISP package.
> 
> So is the problem with the ILISP-package, or is it a general problem
> with spaces in filenames/filepaths?

I suppose the former: the ILISP pachage author might have forgotten
to judiciously employ the Emacs-function shell-quote-argument where
appropriate.

Please report this to him as a bug, with this advice appended.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Email: [email protected]

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I have reinstalled to another directory now, so it is not important to
me anymore. But we may want to get this right anyway, since "C:\Program
Files\..." is the default install directory for LispWorks.

-Robert