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Re: File names with spaces and tramp/ftp
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: File names with spaces and tramp/ftp |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:58:29 +0200 |
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
> address@hidden
> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> 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.