[Geany] Re: bug in Geany 0.10, does not like folders with a space

[Enrico Tröger]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:44:46 +0100, Enrico Tröger
<enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:31:29 -0600, "Jeff Pohlmeyer"
> <yetanothergeek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Rob, thanks for reporting.
>
> > > Attached is a possible fix, but maybe Enrico knows some better
> > > way.
> >
> > I think that patch is no good, because it doesn't take into account
> > all the other special characters that the shell might interpret.
> Also I don't think (read: hope) that in the path of an opened file
> should be any quotes.
>
> > But maybe there is a glib function already made for this:
> > g_shell_quote()
> My first attempt was to just include the path into quotes like this:
> cmd = g_strconcat("cd \"", path, "\"\n", NULL);
> This should solve the problem at least for whitespaces in the path.
> But there might be also some special characters(like German umlauts)
> in the path. I will also have a look at g_shell_quote().
g_shell_quote() doesn't do really more than escaping the given string.
Ok it also takes care of already existing quotes in the string, but as
mentioned above this really should not happen. So I used my first idea
and it should be fixed in SVN r1192.
Btw I did some testing with German umlauts and it already works.

Regards,
Enrico

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