Remote Emacs article: Allow spaces in filenames and realpath -m.

content/posts/Editing-remote-files-with-emacs-comfortably.adoc

@@ -141,17 +141,25 @@ for p in "${@}"; do
         # Use local server, for use with --sudo.
         local=1
     else
+        # Setting field separator to newline so that filenames with spaces will
+        # not be split up into 2 array elements.
+        OLDIFS=${IFS}
+        IFS=$'\n'
+
         if [[ $(id -u) -eq 0 || ${sudo} -eq 1 ]]; then
             if [[ ${local} -eq 0 ]]; then
-                params+=( "/ssh:$(hostname -f)|sudo:$(hostname -f):"$(readlink -f ${p}) )
+                params+=( "/ssh:$(hostname -f)|sudo:$(hostname -f):"$(realpath -m "${p}") )
             else
-                params+=( "/sudo:localhost:"$(readlink -f ${p}) )
+                params+=( "/sudo:localhost:"$(realpath -m "${p}") )
             fi
         else
-            params+=( "/ssh:$(hostname -f):"$(readlink -f ${p}) )
+            params+=( "/ssh:$(hostname -f):"$(realpath "${p}") )
         fi
+
+        IFS=${OLDIFS}
     fi
 done
+
 emacsclient -f ~/.emacs.d/server/server "${params[@]}"
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@@ -219,4 +227,6 @@ echo 'Defaults env_keep += "SSH_CONNECTION"' >> /etc/sudoers.d/ssh_vars
 
 == Updates
 
-* Updated on 2019-05-12 to include the `-f` argument for emacsclient.
+* Updated 2019-05-12: Add `-f` argument to emacsclient.
+* Updated 2019-10-06: Support files with spaces in emacsremote and allow to
+  open files the user can't read (for use with emacsremote --sudo).