Re: [rox-devel] Small feature requested : quotes around path/filename

[Jim K. <jmk...@po...>]

Circa 2003-03-04 15:22:37 +0000 dixit Thomas Leonard:

: > How about escaping some common characters known to have problems in
: > shells -- use '\ ', '\@', etc.?
:=20
: The main problem is pasting names into Open boxes, where you don't want
: any escaping.

Or into browser location fields, where you want different escaping
('%20' instead of '\ ').

On the other hand, vim's ':e' and ':split' commands (to open a file in
the current or a new window, respectively) interpret a backslash-quoted
space "properly" (i.e., ':e /a/path/with/a\ space' opens a file called
'a space', located in directory '/a/path/with').

Perhaps the question should be: how should ROX separate pathnames when
more than one is selected?  Maybe newlines or tabs would be more
appropriate than spaces?

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