Review Request: Quote paths with whitespaces in kdeenv

Oswald Buddenhagen ossi at kde.org
Mon Jul 5 23:58:22 CEST 2010


On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 11:30:59PM +0200, Andre Heinecke wrote:
> but I did not find any good documentation on the difference,
> 
it's actually explained pretty well in the cmd doc (on msdn).
% is the traditional naive text expansion *prior* to any interpretation,
while ! is more like the unix shells' expansion during the actual
processing.

> so please tell me if it is ok to commit that change.
> 
i'd be wary to do that, as one can disable support for that globally in
the registry. though one can also re-enable it with command line args to
the shell.

though i wonder how that ever worked before - spaces in path elements
are nothing particularly new ...


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