At 06:33 PM 1/25/2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: >At 15:04 2003-01-25, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: >>At 07:03 PM 1/24/2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: >> >Rob, >> > >> >... >> >> >I really don't know what's different on my system that makes this nifty feature >work for me. I'm inclined to think it's not a BASH setting or anything specific to my >Cygwin configuration. >> >> >It works in CMD.exe, too, including the part about adding quotes only when needed. >It could be something I configured via Xteq's X-Setup or TweakUI. I'm an inveterate >customizer. >> >> >Perhaps it depends on which version of Windows you're running? I have Win2K Pro >with SP3 and pretty much all the updates installed. (What am I saying "pretty much?" >I'm compulsive about updating!) >> >> >>OK, I played with this a bit and I think I'm narrowing in on a point of >significance. I found that my console bash and cmd worked exactly as Randall >suggests if the path I was dragging and dropping had a space in it's name. In these >cases, the result was quoted (with ""). Otherwise, the path that resulted was not >quoted. Randall, is this what you see there? >> >> >>Larry Hall > > >Larry, > >Yes, exactly--quotes are supplied only when the drag entity includes spaces (anywhere >in the absolute name). Which, of course, means I ought to read my own posts once in a >while, since without the quotes and the unconditional presence of backslashes, this >"feature" is less than ideal.
OK, well at least it's good to know we see the same things. It's an interesting feature though. I'm sure it has some other good uses. ;-) Thanks, Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
