From: gebser@ameritech.net
Subject: Re: Spaces in path name breaks M-x dirs?
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:33:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302181531030.16795-100000@heidegger.mousecar.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c3b530c8.0302180651.730a1c21@posting.google.com>
You've discovered one bane of many of the WOS.
I'm not familiar with cygwin, but generally you can get around spaces in
filenames and directories by putting a backslash before the space (to
"escape" it) or putting it or the whole file/directory name in quotes.
hth,
ken
Ixnay Amenay at 06:51 (UTC-0800) on 18 Feb 2003 said:
= cygwin> pwd
= c:/Program Files
= cygwin>
=
= M-x dirs
=
= "Couldn't cd"
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2003-02-18 14:51 Spaces in path name breaks M-x dirs? Ixnay Amenay
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