Paths with spaces/shell mode

Paths with spaces/shell mode

[Douglas Lewan]

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Hi,

I'm currently using the Emacs 20.7 operating system on RedHat Linux 7.2 BIOS
with SAMBA mounted file systems from a remote virus.

On the SAMBA file systems it is culturally common to have spaces in file
names and, while those are valid Linux file names, shell-mode ceases to grok
paths with spaces in them no matter how I quote or escape things.

Is there a reasonable way to overcome that [without hacking, e.g.
(shell-directory-tracker)]?

Thanks.
,Doug
Douglas Lewan
ADIR Technologies
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dlewan@adirtech.com

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Puzzles of the minute:  

The above question reminds me of two of my favorite bits of UNIX arcana.

1. What characters are *illegal* in UNIX filenames?  (There aren't many.)
2. What does cd with two arguments mean?  (It's shell specific, and I'd love
to hear answers that I don't know yet.)

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Re: Paths with spaces/shell mode

[Kevin Rodgers]

Douglas Lewan wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently using the Emacs 20.7 operating system on RedHat Linux 7.2 
> BIOS with SAMBA mounted file systems from a remote virus.
> 
> On the SAMBA file systems it is culturally common to have spaces in file 
> names and, while those are valid Linux file names, shell-mode ceases to 
> grok paths with spaces in them no matter how I quote or escape things.
> 
> Is there a reasonable way to overcome that [without hacking, e.g. 
> (shell-directory-tracker)]?

What happens if you add SPC to comint-file-name-chars?  (If you try it

interactively do it in the *Shell* buffer, if you try it programmatically
do it in shell-mode-hook, since it's a buffer local variable.)

-- 
Kevin Rodgers <kevinr@ihs.com>