derek holzer wrote:
Hey Oldie,
zmoelnig@iem.at wrote:
i am an oldie user and i never really needed to type backslashes
I guess you never tried to load a sample with whitespace in the filename into a table?
i surely did....
but: whitespaces in filenames should be avoided anyhow on windows (the only place where i stumble across whitespaces now and then) you can use those weird "blabla~1.wav"-like filenames instead. on other platforms you can use links
in symbol-space, whitespaces are handled correctly anyhow
and if i may quote myself: "in the current state of pd, escaping characters is totally unresolved." this does not mean, that i think that we don't need an escaping mechanism. indeed we should find a solution to this problem. (and there are plenty of ways for _this_ problems) enabling backslashes might work for now, but miller has explicitely disabled it and i just wanted to point out, that we might eventually have to wait until he settles on one solution.
i think, backslash as an escape character is not a good idea within the context of pd (or rather: within the context of windows(tm))
what i want to say is that using backspace is (in most of the cases) not necessary.
mfg.a.sdr IOhannes