Re: emacsclient and emacsclientw don't work in Windows Vista x64 RTM

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:52:59 +0100
> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> CC: "Deutsch, Will" <address@hidden>,  address@hidden, 
>  address@hidden
> >
> > Lennart, can you tell why you asked for that, and what does it have to
> > do with the original problem?
> 
> (Did I explain why before? I think I missed it.)

No, you didn't explain this before.

> In a cmd.exe console window you can actually do things like
> 
>    C:\>  dir "c:/path/to/my/files/dir/"
> 
> It works as long as the last component is not a file instead of a 
> directory. Then it fails. I did not notice that last case when I tested 
> so I believed it worked in all cases on w2k, that is why I asked Will to 
> test. So, yes, it was a useless test unfortunately ;-)
> 
> Now I am just waiting for Will's report with using my patched version of 
> emacsclient.exe where I have changed path to Emacs bin dir to use only \ 
> before calling CreateProcess.

I don't see why this should matter, since the Windows API groks both
forward and backslashes, AFAIK.  But if you think this could be the
problem, how about writing a short program that uses CreateProcess,
similarly to emacsclient, to start a program whose name it gets via
the command line?  Then Will and others could try that program with
various variants of file names using different mixes of forward and
back-slashes, and see if that matters at all.