On 2007-04-21, Chris Sutcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> I'm having an issue with spaces in the makeprg command. When setting it to:
>
> :setlocal mp=C:\Program\ Files\NSIS\makensis.exe
>
> I get an error:
>
> shell returned 1
> (1 of 2): 'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command
>
> Can someone please let me know how I go about getting this to work?
Here's one way to quote/escape it:
:setlocal mp=\"C:\\Program\ Files\\NSIS\\makensis.exe\"
The command name seen by cmd.exe needs to look like this:
"C:\Program Files\NSIS\makensis.exe"
Windows doesn't recognize the backslash as an escape character, so
the only way that I know of to execute a command containing a space
in its path name is to enclose the path name in double quotes.
You can't quote the rhs of a set or setlocal command--you can only
backslash-escape problematic characters such as backslashes, spaces
and double quotes. Hence the backslashes in the solution above.
HTH,
Gary
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