[PD-dev] changing glob_setfilename() to handle spaces in the dirname

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Apr 28, 2008, at 4:43 AM, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> How does that sound?
>
> Hacky.  What about multiple consecutive spaces? etc

Multiple consecutive spaces would be turned into one space.  That is  
true.  I am sure there are other names that won't make it thru.

>> Any better approach?
>
> Some sort of escaping mechanism to allow spaces (and other characters)
> to be safely transmitted in symbols in both directions.

That would be nice, but not so easy, for whatever reason.  I think  
that has been on the table for years.  Do you have any ideas on an  
escape mechanism?

In the mean time, I've used this binbuf technique in some externals  
and it has worked pretty well.  I think it is a decent hack until  
there is a real escape mechanism.

.hc


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