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Date:Mon May 9 10:24:32 2001 
Subject:Editing filenames with spaces 
From:Aaron Sloman See text for reply address 
Volume-ID:1010509.01 

[To reply replace "Aaron.Sloman.XX" with "A.Sloman"]

Some time ago (1993 I think) a decision was taken to make ved treat an
argument with spaces as a request to read in multiple files.

So,

   ENTER ved my report

makes Ved attempt to read in a file called "my" and a file called
"report".

However since then it has become increasingly common for file stores for
use on unix and on windows/NT to be integrated. E.g. in this school
all users get the same login directory whether they are using PCs
running NT or using machines running solaris, linux, etc. Thus files
created on any of the systems are accessible on the others.

This makes the current behaviour of Ved intolerable, and as far
as I can tell there is no facility for turning it off.

Has anyone found a way to disable this?

Does anyone ever use the ability to give Ved an argument with spaces?
(I have known about it for a long time, but have never found it
of any use.)

I am inclined to find and comment out the code that breaks up
vedargument if it contains spaces, or control it with a new
global variable, e.g.

    ved_multi_edit

with default value false.

Comments? Suggestions?

There may be other utilities in pop-11 that will not work if file or
directory names contain spaces. I have not checked sys_file_match
for instance.

Aaron
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