IIRC the spacing issue is a standard problem for all programs. If any program (.Net, Java) path has a space, it also has to be quoted.
Suresh Govindachar wrote: > Glenn asked: > >> > >> (They have taken the pleasant activity of working at a console and > >> made it miserable drudgery. In cmd.exe, I had to be careful to use > >> unix find rather than cmd.exe's find. In the power-shell, I am > >> finding that more unix commands are over-ridden, for example, diff; > >> I think I'll just prefix all my unix-utility commands with u: ufind, > >> ugrep etc.) > > > > Is there any compensating benefit to using PowerShell, to > > overcome the "miserable drudgery" that you describe? Why not > > just stick with cmd.exe? > > Before answering the question, there is a bug in the .pl file-asssociation. > If the path to the .pl file has spaces so that one needs to use > " " then the .pl association is not recognized! > > I was not clear about what was "miserable drudgery". I don't mind > renaming my unix utilities with the prefix u. It is the > complicated way of, say, setting an environment variable that's > painful -- but I don't do that very often. > > I have just been using PowerShell for a few hours, and so far > I can continue to use it as cmd.exe (except for the above bug). > > The one big benefit over cmd.exe is being able to use / in path > names. I never got used to \. > > Also, _if_ the console/terminal PowerShell Plus supports lots of > colors, I will be able to use console vim (rather than gvim). > > Today with the power-shell: Right-Click on short-cut to PowerShell > brings a drop-down menu: > > -> Properties > Pick Compatibility Tab > Hit [X] Run in 256 colors > > However, the result was that colors on the entire desktop got > messed up! For example, the "Olive Green" theme became > steel-gray! So I switched back to 16 colors. > > --Suresh > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Users mailing list > Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
