bug#25082: [PATCH] Add support to emacsclient for command-lline options in ALTERNATE_EDITOR/--alternate-editor

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 23:59:01 +0100
> Cc: 25082@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I've modified my patch to cope with this case. Rather than write a
> general escaping parser, or even one that just copes with escaping
> quotes (likely to be complex and buggy in C; and I couldn't find code I
> could easily lift from elsewhere), I simply allow " as a delimiter as
> well as space for quotes. Escaping quotes is not supported.
> 
> This suffices to cope with the common case on Windows of needing to
> quote a path containing spaces. It also copes with other simple cases.
> 
> Is this sufficient?

It could be, but I'm not sure I understand clearly what is supported
and what isn't.  Could you please add this information to the NEWS
entry and in more detail to the user manual?  I think having these
details in the manual is important regardless.

Thanks.