Re: Strange problem with netrw in vim 7.2 windows

Jack Donohue wrote:
>> Jack Donohue wrote:
>>> I use the x (execute) command a lot
>>>
>>> " Netrw Directory Listing
>>> (netrw v132)
>>> " Sorted by time
>>> " Quick Help: <F1>:help -:go up dir D:delete R:rename
>>> s:sort-by x:exec
>>> "
>>> ============================================================================
>>>
>>>
>>> Works fine in vim70, but I recently changed to vim 7.2 and I
>>> sometime get this:
>>>
>>> Press <cr> to continue
>>>
>>> instead of opening the file with the file association. I'm running
>>> Windows XP SP 3
>
> So, I found that this line:
>
> exe 'silent !start rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler
> '.shellescape(fname,1)
>
> is not working for some reason.
>
> I added:
>
> call input("start rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler
> ".shellescape(fname,1));
>
> and it prints out for a sample file:
>
> start rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler
> 'G:/CRW/Membership/missing.csv'
>
> which looks fine to me.
>
> I tried the former:
>
> exe 'silent !start rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler
> "'.escape(fname, '%#').'"'
>
> and that works fine. The only difference I can see it the text for
> the two commands is that the old escape ends up with a double quoted
> filename, while shellescape generates single quotes.
Hmm -- maybe changing your shellquote option would help.
Regards,
Chip Campbell

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