Re: [Groff] spaces in file names

[Larry Kollar]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > > I wonder whether this should be changed to the behaviour of the
> > > least surprise so that `foo bar.ps' gets loaded instead.
> >
> > It's bitten me before, although I never mentioned it. I'd like if it
> > recognized the `\ ' construct, the same way most *nix shells escape
> > spaces in file names.
>
> Hmm.  Why not simply read the whole line instead?  I can imagine to
> construct file names from strings, and replacing spaces with `\ ' is
> an additional complication.

Consistency with other command-line based programs, primarily.
But either way is fine with me.

-- Larry