On Jun 16, 3:41 am, Peter Odding <[email protected]> wrote: > > I haven't had much trouble with filenames personally, as long as I stick > to forward slashes (which work on Windows) instead of backslashes (which > don't work on anything but Windows) and don't mangle user-provided > pathnames starting with drive letters on Windows. Could you be more > specific in what can go wrong?! >
In general, I don't have problems with forward/backward slashes on Windows. Purely within Vim, there are no problems. But, some Windows commands, built-in or otherwise, only know about backward slashes. Two notable examples of such commands are "dir" to list directory contents, and cscope. Cscope on Windows also does not like spaces in the file name, I've found. My scripts for working with Cscope all use the 8.3-style file paths (C:\Progra~1\Vim instead of "C:\Program Files \Vim") to eliminate spaces, and temporarily disable 'shellslash', among other things. -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
