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Make file paths with spaces in the console work as clickable links

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System Details

System Details Output


### VSCode version: 1.34.0 a622c65b2c713c890fcf4fbf07cf34049d5fe758 x64

### VSCode extensions:
alefragnani.project-manager@10.5.2
CoenraadS.bracket-pair-colorizer-2@0.0.28
donjayamanne.githistory@0.4.6
DotJoshJohnson.xml@2.4.0
eamodio.gitlens@9.8.1
GitHub.vscode-pull-request-github@0.7.0
HookyQR.beautify@1.5.0
mechatroner.rainbow-csv@1.1.1
monokai.theme-monokai-pro-vscode@1.1.13
ms-vscode.powershell@2019.5.0
PKief.material-icon-theme@3.8.0
pnp.polacode@0.3.2
Shan.code-settings-sync@3.2.9
shd101wyy.markdown-preview-enhanced@0.4.0
WakaTime.vscode-wakatime@2.1.2
yzhang.markdown-all-in-one@2.3.1
Zignd.html-css-class-completion@1.19.0


### PSES version: 1.12.1.0

### PowerShell version:

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      5.1.18362.113
PSEdition                      Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion                   10.0.18362.113
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion              3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1

Issue Description

When something is broken, and an error is thrown VSCode allows you to ctrl+click link to link to file. This is great, but it doesn’t work with the path that has spaces in them.

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Expected Behaviour

Should work with paths with spaces.

Issue Analytics

  • State:open
  • Created 4 years ago
  • Comments:9 (3 by maintainers)

github_iconTop GitHub Comments

4reactions
rjmholtcommented, May 31, 2019

We should investigate how VSCode does this first – it may be that quoting won’t help

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corbobcommented, Jun 3, 2019

I was going to suggest maybe trying 8.3 naming convention… But… WindowsPowerShell is one of two directories in C:\Program Files that doesn’t have 8.3 naming (the other being ModifiableWindowsApps) (also note Windows.old appears to be another one with no 8.3…)

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