RE: Spaces in Windows pathnames

You need to use a non-gui console version of LW with ILISP. Also,
if you install LW in a path with spaces in it's name (such as 
"c:/Program Files/Xanalys/LispWorks/"), it is better to create a
batch file to start LW with from emacs. This and other LW-specific
setup instructions are detailed on the page that I contributed 
to the CL Cookbook (it covers setting up emacs for a number of
different lisp implementations under windows:

http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/windows.html

Hope that helps.

--
Bill Clementson

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Folland [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 4:15 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Ilisp-help] 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:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 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]
> 
> ------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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