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.)

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Kevin Rodgers <kevinr@ihs.com>