> > I wonder whether this should be changed to the behaviour of the > > least surprise so that `foo bar.ps' gets loaded instead. However, > > I haven't yet investigated whether this causes problems in the > > implementation. > > It's bitten me before, although I never mentioned it. I'd like if it > recognized the `\ ' construct, the same way most *nix shells escape > spaces in file names.
Hmm. Why not simply read the whole line instead? I can imagine to construct file names from strings, and replacing spaces with `\ ' is an additional complication. Werner