From: demerphq Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:59:01 GMT Subject: Re: Escape character for .gitconfig Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 21 December 2011 13:54, Peter Krefting wrote: > Erik Blake: > > >> As you can see, I'm running git on a Win7 64 machine. Is there any way to >> escape the brackets? Or do I need to reinstall notepad++ on a different >> path? > > > Just use the 8.3 path instead, using either "C:/Progra~1" or "C:/Progra~2" > (depending on how the system got installed). You can mix 8.3 and long paths > in the same command (so keeping the "Notepad++" component is fine). Or use a junction to make an alias of the name without strange chars.... Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"