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--- Begin Message ---tag + confirmed thanks Hey there upstream :) what do you think about this feature request ? Cheers, --Seb On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:45:10AM -0500, Gwern Branwen wrote: > Package: wikipediafs > Version: 0.2-1 > Severity: wishlist > > Currently, to deal with a article name containing spaces, it seems > one must replace spaces with underscores; not > $nano "Fujiwara no Teika" > or > $nano Fujiwara\ no\ Teika > but > $nano Fujiwara_no_Teika > > This is, from my perspective, not ideal. If I wish to open up a > file from Emacs or some other capable text editor, which bypasses > shell issues with spaces, I still have to remember to make all > spaces underscores (this would also get in the way of shell > scripts, I think). > > So I'd like it if wikipediafs supported the first 2 examples and > not just the 3rd. > > Even if upstream rejects this request, I think the man page > doesn't make this clear. I noticed one sentence which *might* > reference this behaviour ("This is why most of the time you will > need a terminal to run the "your_favourite_editor file_name" > command."), but it is by no means clear - a simple addition to > note that to open articles with spaces in the title requires one > to manually substitute _ for " "s. > > -- > Gwern > Inquiring minds want to know. >
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