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Re: [Groff] spaces in file names


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [Groff] spaces in file names
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:08:46 +0100 (CET)

> > I wonder whether this should be changed to the behaviour of the
> > least surprise so that `foo bar.ps' gets loaded instead.  However,
> > I haven't yet investigated whether this causes problems in the
> > implementation.
> 
> It's bitten me before, although I never mentioned it. I'd like if it
> recognized the `\ ' construct, the same way most *nix shells escape
> spaces in file names.

Hmm.  Why not simply read the whole line instead?  I can imagine to
construct file names from strings, and replacing spaces with `\ ' is
an additional complication.


    Werner




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