Whitespace On The Command Line

[Carlo Graziani]

Hi Nediters.

I can't seem to get the nedit command-line to parse arguments with
whitespace properly.  For example, a filename like 'foo foo' cannot
be picked up by invocations like

%> nedit 'foo foo'
%> nedit foo\ foo
%> nedit "foo foo"
%> nedit 'foo\ foo'

and so on.  No combination of quoting and escaping that I've tried
seems to work.  The file menu has no trouble with displaying and
selecting the file, but all the above command-line invocations
result in failed stats on files with names like 'foo' or 'foo\'.

It's not just filenames.  I couldn't get the -xrm option to work
with a resource string containing whitespace either, despite the
same flailing about with escaping and quoting.

So is there a work-around for this?

Thanks,

Carlo

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