From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: lennart.borgman@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: File names with spaces and tramp/ftp
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:58:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uwspandzu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nqve4u49dr.fsf@alcatel-lucent.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:00:48 +0100)
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, lennart.borgman@gmail.com,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:00:48 +0100
>
> But it is a good approximation. Under GNU/Linux, we have
>
> (shell-quote-argument "file name with spaces 'and \"quotes")
> => "file\\ name\\ with\\ spaces\\ \\'and\\ \\\"quotes"
>
> W32 systems do
>
> (shell-quote-argument "file name with spaces 'and \"quotes")
> => "\"file name with spaces 'and \\\"quotes\""
>
> Both quotations work with stock FTP clients except the quotation of
> "\"" on W32 systems: it shall be "\"\" instead of "\\\"".
This case is not important to handle, since Windows file names cannot
include qoute characters " anyway, as you have discovered:
> Btw, I
> could not create the file "~/file name with spaces 'and \"quotes" on
> W32 in Emacs; this worked only with Emacs under GNU/Linux.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-12 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-06 22:17 File names with spaces and tramp/ftp Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-02-11 15:39 ` Michael Albinus
2008-02-11 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-12 3:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-12 13:00 ` Michael Albinus
2008-02-12 19:58 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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