bug#8439: [PATCH] ffap.el -- detect paths with spaces

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:

> An example under Windows:
>
>    (locate-library "ffap.el")C-xC-e
>    c:/Program Files/emacs/emacs-23.3/lisp/ffap.el     M-x ffap on line
>
>    => c:/Program
>
>    With the patch, M-x ffap will offer:
>
>    => c:/Program Files/emacs/emacs-23.3/lisp/ffap.el

[...]

> +                   ;; FIXME: may need better tuning. Currenly matches 
> "/paths like/exam ple.txt"
> +                   (if (looking-at ".*/.* [^[:space:]]*/.*[^[:space:]]")

Won't this be more problematic than helpful?  There may be more matches
of stuff that's not part of the file name.  And spaces in file names
aren't that common in non-Windowsey environments...

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