Re: [PATCH] Quote filename passed to $EDITOR

Scott Lamb <slamb@slamb.org> writes:
> I'm more worried about working copies with weird names. Ones with
> spaces - putting quotes around it fixes that. Ones with dollar signs -
> error on Unix. Ones with percents - errors on Windows. Ones with
> quotes -
> error on both. Escaping is shell-dependent.
>
> This sort of thing does happen, and I don't like software that does
> nasty things because of it. I.e., the iTunes installer that would eat
> your hard drive if you had a space in a volume name. This is somewhat
> less drastic ;) but still could be annoying.

Okay, thanks. These are pretty much the scenarios I was thinking of
too.

Needs to be fixed, just not for Alpha.

Want to file an issue on it? I'm busy writing the CHANGES file at the
moemnt, spent far too much time in the issue tracker already today,
hate the sight of the thing :-)...)

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Received on Tue Jul 23 21:20:25 2002