bug#10827: 24.0.93; M-RET behaviour with M-x diff-buffer-with-file RET

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I am on Windows + Cygwin. The immediate problem seems to be that
>> `diff-hunk-file-names' assumes that file names have no spaces.

> You seem to be using an NT version of Emacs in conjunction with
> Cygwin. While that does to some extent work (I'm doing that myself
> sometimes), it isn't a supported combination as the filename quoting rules
> on either side are completely different.  It is much easier to run Emacs
> from Cygwin instead and have _all_ of it work than trying to troubleshoot
> each missed path conversion or botched quoting.

While that is generally true, I don't think that will help him fix the
problem, because the problem is a limitation of Emacs's Elisp code.


        Stefan