(name . MK)(address . invention@mtu-net.ru)(address . 666-done@debbugs.gnu.org)
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thanks
MK wrote:
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> I could not install SLIME into GNU Emacs 22.2.1
> (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) a long time.
> I find solution (Thank to
>
> John Thingstad) on
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/thread/bd134ae7a422404f
> : 'Try Progra~1 instaed of "Program Files" '
> "The emacs reader is seeing eveything after Program as the next command
> line argument.
> So it can't find file "C:\Program".
> On the Bash command line I could write C:/Program\ Files/... but this
> doesn't seem to work in Emacs.
> Thus I used the DOS 8.3 long name conversion instead. This is really a
> anacronism since no-one uses DOS anymore but it still works. "
>
> What about it?
Reading the thread linked above, the problem appears to be that the path
to the executable was not quoted, even though it contained a space, so
the part of the path that was after the space is interpreted as the
first argument. This is normal - all shells and programs with shell-like
functionality require proper quoting of commands and arguments in the
presence of whitespace and other special characters.