Re: Opening files that start with %

[jgotts linuxsavvy com]

In message <1027522577 7818 37 camel en-dash>, Ben FrantzDale writes:

>This sounds a lot like bug 88899. (For netscape, it's just nescape being
>dumb, I believe -- don't use Netscape.)

>Anyway, bug 88899 was resolved as fixed in CVS HEAD yesterday.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88899

It should be noted that you fixed the bug for gedit 2.0 *only*.  Attached is
a patch for gedit 0.9.7 that appears to work.  As the original reporter noted,
other applications such as nautilus will have to be checked and fixed as well.
I'll leave that to some other brave soul.

John

--- gedit-0.9.7/src/file.c.orig	Thu Jul 25 20:31:24 2002
+++ gedit-0.9.7/src/file.c	Thu Jul 25 20:32:40 2002
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@
 	GnomeVFSResult  result;
 	GString *tmp_buf = NULL;
 	GeditView *view;
+	char *safe_fname;
 			
 	gedit_debug (DEBUG_FILE, "");
 
@@ -207,7 +208,8 @@
 		  gtk_main_iteration ();
 
 	info = gnome_vfs_file_info_new ();
-	result = gnome_vfs_get_file_info (fname, 
+	safe_fname = gnome_vfs_escape_path_string(fname);
+	result = gnome_vfs_get_file_info (safe_fname, 
 					  info,
 					  (GNOME_VFS_FILE_INFO_GET_MIME_TYPE
 					   | GNOME_VFS_FILE_INFO_FOLLOW_LINKS));
@@ -251,7 +253,7 @@
 		return 1;	
 	}
 
-	result = gnome_vfs_open (&from_handle, fname, GNOME_VFS_OPEN_READ);
+	result = gnome_vfs_open (&from_handle, safe_fname, GNOME_VFS_OPEN_READ);
 	if (result != GNOME_VFS_OK)
 	{
 		gchar *errstr = g_strdup_printf (_("An error was encountered while reading the file: \n\n%s\n\n"

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