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Multi Commander => Feature Requests and Suggestions => Topic started by: PrimaMateria on September 12, 2014, 13:44:53

Title: Multi-Tag returning path with escaped spaces
Post by: PrimaMateria on September 12, 2014, 13:44:53

Hi,
in last days I started to learn and use gvim. For the easy access I have created new User Command and assigned it to hotkey.
But I hit a problem, when opening files with path containing space, because Gvim considers argument with spaces as separate arguments, even if it is encapsulated in apostrophes .

It would be nice, if there will exist some multi-tag escaping spaces.

Command: MC.Run CMD=gvim ARG="${focusfilepath}"

Title: Re: Multi-Tag returning path with escaped spaces
Post by: Mathias (Author) on September 12, 2014, 14:29:02

If you need to include " inside the quoted string. Then you can use ' (single quote character) instead of " for the encapsulating the text

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ARG=' My text has "quote" characters inside the value'

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MC.Run CMD=gvim ARG='"${focusfilepath}"'

Title: Re: Multi-Tag returning path with escaped spaces
Post by: Crash+Burn on September 18, 2014, 22:01:24

Awesome that that works. Not so awesome that Linux tools/utilities/shells are so stupid about quotes and escapes. They could of easily disallowed \ and " in filenames and it would of simplified usage of the command-line tools and other utilities.