bug#67736: 30.0.50; emacsclient.desktop fails with quoting-related error

[Peter Oliver]

Mekeor Melire wrote:

>     $ xdg-open example.txt
>     egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
>     [: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
>     [: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>     [: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
>     [: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>     [: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
>     [: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>
> Does anyone else experience this problem?

I don’t experience it on Fedora, but I notice that the Fedora version of 
xdg-utils carries an awful lot of patches 
(https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xdg-utils/tree/f38).

I agree that the quoting is too complex, and would be better eliminated.  A 
wrapper script could achieve the same functionality.


While I’m here, I’ll mention the other emacsclient.desktop issues that I’m 
aware of:

- Startup notification doesn’t work when opening files in an existing Emacs: 
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=49504
- $DISPLAY is inappropriate for PGTK on Wayland, since it forces XWayland.
- emacsclient.desktop provides a superset of the functionality of 
emacs.desktop, but can’t replace it because there isn’t agreement that use of a 
daemon is suitable default behaviour.

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Peter Oliver