Opened 7 years ago

Closed 7 years ago

#1110 closed defect (fixed)

open with wildcard not reusable in file history

Reported by: Elaine Meng Owned by: Tom Goddard
Priority: moderate Milestone:
Component: Input/Output Version:
Keywords: Cc: Greg Couch
Blocked By: Blocking:
Notify when closed: Platform: all
Project: ChimeraX

Description

If I used a wildcard in the open command, e.g. "open test*cxs" it works correctly that time. However, later clicking link or icon in Rapid Access (File History) even though link looks correct (test*cxs) it gives a different string in the Log and doesn't work:

open /Users/meng/Desktop/test%2Acxs
File not found: /Users/meng/Desktop/test%2Acxs

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Tom Goddard, 7 years ago

Cc: Greg Couch added
Resolution: → fixed
Status: assigned → closed

Fixed.

Greg and I discussed this. The problem is the file history shown in the GUI is an HTML page using "cxcmd:open filename" links. The current file history code does a urllib.parse.quote() which replaces "*" with "%2A" and it will escape other symbol characters. But our code that executes the cxcmd command is not unquoting.

Greg has fixed this by adding the unquoting. This means that if hand-typed html tutorials using "cxcmd: some command" inlclude a percent character "%" it should be escaped. But we think this will be exceedingly rare.

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