Re: [Mutt] #3363: Compose Menu: Can't add attachments with space
#3363: Compose Menu: Can't add attachments with space characters in their path
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Reporter: cludwig | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: mutt | Version:
Keywords: compose attachment space |
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Comment(by cludwig):
You are both right, of course. When using the browser or when entering the
path manually, you can complete the path and then it can also contain
spaces.
I encountered this issue with a very long and cryptic path generated by
some third party software that I copy'n pasted into the terminal running
mutt. It was then that mutt dropped the spaces from the path and it was
not possible to add them afterwards. I almost never use the file browser
whence it did not occur to me that I could navigate to the file this way.
And entering the file manually was too error prone since the path had some
long numbers (with other, similarly named files / directories in the the
same directory). So I ended up copying the file in another terminal to the
tmp folder.
Bottom line: It is indeed a minor issue, but I think it is counter-
intuitive that you cannot paste filenames with space characters, not even
if the are \-escaped.
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