[Geany] Windows Explorer right click gives me shortened 8.3 dos file names.

[Enrico Tröger]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:50:12 +0100, Louis wrote:

>Ok,
>
>As is often usual in these occasions, I have fixed my own problem.
>
>Using regedit (from the command line run
>C:\WINDOWS\system32\regedt32.exe ) I searched for geany and found this
>entry.
>
>
>   Key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\OpenWithGeany\command
>   Data: C:\Program Files\Geany\bin\geany.exe "%1"
>
>I modified the data and put quotes round "C:\Program
>Files\Geany\bin\geany.exe" as follows:
>   Data: "C:\Program Files\Geany\bin\geany.exe" "%1"
>
>By the way what value does every one else have for the data in the
>"HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\OpenWithGeany\command" registry key? When
>writing this key during installation do you put in the quotes round
>"C:\Program Files\Geany\bin\geany.exe"?

No, we don't. But obviously we should. My test Windows box has a German
locale and the Program Files folder is there called "Programme" without
any spaces. This might be one reason why I didn't notice that problem.
Anyway, yesterday I tested it also with a manually created folder c:
\Program Files\Geany\... and it still worked, no idea why.
I also have no idea why the missing quotes causes DOS 8.3 filenames.

http://www.uvena.de/tmp/geany-0.17svn_3871_nogtk_setup.exe and
http://www.uvena.de/tmp/geany-0.17svn_3871_setup.exe are just built
installers with this change (added quotes around the command), please
try it (just choose the one of the installers you used previously) and
report if it helps.

Thanks!


Regards,
Enrico

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