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Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:

> I am really enjoying the ability added in VM-7.18 that launches
> attachments under their actual file name as opposed to just using a
> random temp file name.
> 
> However, I have noticed that files with spaces in them fail to launch
> properly, though the file itself is detached to the temp directory under the
> proper full file name.
> 
> I imagine that this is probably due to file names not being properly
> quoted to preserve spaces and other such non-alphanumeric characters.
> 
> Any thoughts where source of error is and how to fix?

Such file names should only cause a problem if the external program is launched
via the shell.  Does this patch to vm-mime-display-external-generic help?

*** vm-7.18/vm-mime.el.orig	Mon Oct 13 13:30:18 2003
--- vm-7.18/vm-mime.el	Mon Jan 12 15:29:13 2004
***************
*** 2003,2008 ****
--- 2003,2012 ----
   	       (write-region start end tempfile nil 0)
   	       (delete-region start end))))

+       ;; quote file name for shell command only
+       (or (cdr program-list)
+           (setq tempfile (shell-quote-argument tempfile)))
+
         ;; expand % specs
         (let ((p program-list)
   	    (vm-mf-attachment-file tempfile))

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Kevin Rodgers