Re: execute command from vim in windows

Ben Schmidt <mail_ben_schmidt@yahoo.com.au>:
>> One of the ways to avoid spaces in Windows names of files and
>> directories is to replace any "controversial" names by their 8.3
>> equivalents
>
> Of course, this will only work on filesystems that still support 8.3
> equivalents and have that functionality turned on, which isn't always
> the case these days. Just a potential gotcha with that approach.

Really? Ugh. I'm using this method for my 'Tagbar' plugin to call ctags
(using system()) since shellescape() doesn't seem to work in Windows for
this case. Could you give some information about when this might be the
case?

Thanks,
Jan

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