dired-open-xdg: file path could contain quotes. use call-process.
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dired-open-xdg, the shell command is constructed usingconcatto be run bycall-process-shell-command, and file path as an argument is surrounded by single quotes'to prevent most special characters being parsed as such except single quote itself.Thus, if the
filecontains single quotes anywhere in the path,dired-open-xdgwould fail to open it as the shell would not consider the path as a whole word.Using
call-processwould pass ARGS, in this case the file path, straight to the program as a whole, eliminating the issue of quotes as well as other shell special characters.