Re: Cannot change to 'C:\' (root) on Windows

[Juergen W. <wie...@fr...>]

On Sunday 13 November 2005 22:01 Petr Mikulik wrote:
> > As a side note: If the current behaviour is changed, patch [1289725]
> > "handling double quotes in gnuplot-mode" will be outdated (and I
> > wouldn't know how to fix it).
>
> There is no change to behaviour:
>  	this works: X 'C:\tmp'
>  	this not:   X 'C:\'
> where X is set title or cd or whatever else.

I simply don't understand you (which may be the case because you
haven't understood me, so: more probably my fault).  What do you
mean by "works"?  

Raw strings in python and single quoted strings in gnuplot are
*very* special.  In your second example, the first single quote
starts the string, then there are two ordinary characters.  Then
there is an *odd* number of backslashes, meaning that the following
character is to be taken literally *as are all of the backslashes*.
The string is ended implicitly by the end of the line.  So, there is
no bug.  Just a very silly syntax.  I don't know who has invented
this and why, but gnuplot is not the only program using it.

The main problem seems to be that gnuplot silently ends a string at
the end of a line without even giving a warning.

And if you do change the latter example to work the way you expect,
the named patch will be broken.


Juergen