Bug 190173

Summary:	app-misc/emelfm2: weird handling of pathnames with '~' in it
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Tobias Jakobi <liquid.acid>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Desktop Misc. Team <desktop-misc>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tobias Jakobi 2007-08-25 13:57:40 UTC

Hi there,

I've encountered a small problem with the emelfm2 file manager. It works great except that it has some problems with pathnames that include the '~' character. I think emelfm2 expands the '~' to the home directory path and therefore refuses to work.

The strange thing is that the following happens:
Say I have opened /home/user in an arbitrary pane (it doesn't matter if it's the right or the left one). I have a directory named 'documents ~ settings' in /home/user.

Now when I double-click on 'documents ~ settings' emelfm2 does nothing. It should however execute the default action, which is open the directory in the current pane.
Now if I right-click the directory 'documents ~ settings' and manually select the open-action it has no problem to open the directory.

The same thing happens if I want to play some music in this kind of directories. I have set the default action for mp3 files to playback with mpg123.
What happens when I simply double click is the following thing:
mpg123 "/home/user/documents /home/user settings/music.mp3"
and of course mpg123 doesn't find the file

Manually selecting mpg123 from the context-menu produces this output:
mpg123 music.mp3
This works because emelfm2 doesn't supply the full pathname to mpg123

So there seems to be something wrong with the expanding code handling these special characters (like the '~').

Thanks,
Tobias

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-26 07:18:02 UTC

You need to submit this upstream mailing list, see http://emelfm2.net/#subscribe

Comment 2 Tobias Jakobi 2007-08-26 08:12:11 UTC

OK, will do so and report back!

Comment 3 Tobias Jakobi 2007-09-01 16:02:00 UTC

Reporting back!
Here is the link to the discussion on the mailing list:
http://www.freelists.org/archives/emelfm2/08-2007/msg00011.html

Tom did fix the bug, so the ~ is not expanded anymore when contained in a string surrounded by "".
Now waiting for a new emelfm2 release.

Uhmm, should I change the status?