Re: mc and firefox

[Frank Dietrich <ABLEsoft gmx de>]

Hi Dominique,

Dominique Michel <dominique michel citycable ch> wrote:
> Frank Dietrich <ABLEsoft gmx de> a Ãcrit :
> > Dominique Michel <dominique michel citycable ch> wrote:
> > > I am very happy with mc as filemanager, but I have a problem when
> > > lauching some of my local html files. When the filename or the
> > > path contain a space, I just get an error message from firefox,
> > > and the URL it is traying to load is stopping at the first space.
> # html
> regex/\.([hH][tT][mM][lL]?)$
>       Open=(if test -n "gnome-moz-remote" && test -n "$DISPLAY";
>       then
> (gnome-moz-remote file://%d/%p &) 1>&2; else links %f || lynx
> -force_html %f || ${PAGER:-more} %f; fi) 2>/dev/null
>
> I also try:
>       Open=(firefox "%d%p") 1>&2 &
> and
>       Open=firefox "%f" 1>&2 &
>
> I also try with and without double quotes around %f and %d%p. And
> with and without the 1>&2 & part.
>
> ...
>
> But I am not sure that the problem reside with mc, because I get
> exactly the same false behaviour if I run into the console:
>
> firefox "/path to the/file with some space.html"

Does it work if you replace the blanks with %20
   firefox "/path%20to%20the/file%20with%20some%20space.html"

Is firefox the firefox binary or some kind of wrapper script to start
the fifefox?

   file `which firefox`

regards
Frank
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