> > 1) Is there a workaround or some way to manipulate how quotes are handles. > Guess some way to execute a raw command line would be enough. >
Here is some example code you could use to create processes directly on Windows: https://gist.github.com/ihnorton/82dc5b41a537de710ab2 2) Is this a bug in Julia. > Known issue, more or less. We are somewhat fighting against libuv's attempts to be extra-helpful here. I'm not sure what is the best way to improve this. (see boatload of semi-related discussion, starting here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia.jl/pull/211#issuecomment-51562782) On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:02 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I currently try to make the LaTeX.jl package from rened windows friendly. > However I run into problems because of julias command interplation. > > I try to open a pdf file in some pdf viewer. In windows you can do that > with following command > > start "" SOME_DOCUMENT.pdf > > However spawn(`start "" $pdfname`) > will result in > > start '' 'SOME_DOCUMENT.pdf' > > Double quotes have been replaced by single quotes and the string was also > encapsulated by quotes (looks like because of the presence of backslashes). > > So my questions are: > 1) Is there a workaround or some way to manipulate how quotes are handles. > Guess some way to execute a raw command line would be enough. > 2) Is this a bug in Julia. > > Thanks! > > Florian >
