On 2007-06-03, Seth Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I'm running version 7.1 under cygwin on a windows xp machine.
>
> I'm trying to cd to the current directory with the directory browser
> (via the 'c' key) but I get the error message:
> E172: Only one file name allowed: cd /cygdrive/c/Documents and
> Settings/smason/projec
> ts/
>
> It seems like the spaces in the directory name is causing problems.
> If I open a file in the directory and then use ':cd %:h' everything
> works fine so it seems like the problem is not with vim(?).
>
> Any help or direction to go from here would be greatly appreciated.
I see the problem. I believe it is a bug in autoload/netrw.vim (at
line 1593 in version 109) in the definition of the c command:
nnoremap <buffer> <silent> c :exe "cd ".b:netrw_curdir<cr>
Any spaces in b:netrw_curdir are not escaped and the directory name
is not in quotes, so the cd command sees any spaces as separators.
I don't know at the moment what the right solution is. The
following workaround seems to fix this particular problem, but it
may introduce other problems especially when running vim in a pure
Unix or pure Windows environment.
nnoremap <buffer> <silent> c :exe "cd "'"'.b:netrw_curdir.'"'<cr>
Dr. Chip probably has some preferred solution for this sort of
problem.
Regards,
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Mobile Broadband Division
| Spokane, Washington, USA
