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

[Louis Barman]

Thanks that fixed the problem when I reinstalled.


It used to work for me as well and when upgrading then it stopped
working (I suspect due to some strange registry settings on my
machine) but putting the quote round is best.

Thanks and thanks for Geany.

Louis Barman

2009/6/17 Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>:
> 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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