Can't add application for opening text that has a quote in the filesystem path

[Adrian Fita]

I tried to add the following application in Preferences->Applications->Set default text editor: C:\Program Files (x86)\Programmer's Notepad\pn.exe . It's this application: http://www.pnotepad.org/ which I'm pretty fond of: it's fast and does a good job as a text editor. By default it installs itself in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Programmer's Notepad\". It looks like the single quote in the filesystem path confuses Zim.

I received the following error:

--
This is zim 0.65
Platform: nt
Locale: en_US cp1252
FS encoding: mbcs
Python: (2, 7, 11, 'final', 0)
Gtk: (2, 24, 10)
Pygtk: (2, 24, 0)
Zim revision is:
  branch: 065
  revision: 805 <email address hidden>
  date: 2015-11-01 15:42:45 +0100

======= Traceback =======
  File "zim\gui\widgets.pyo", line 3106, in do_response
  File "zim\gui\applications.pyo", line 905, in do_response_ok
  File "zim\applications.pyo", line 146, in tryexec
  File "zim\gui\applications.pyo", line 554, in cmd
  File "zim\parsing.pyo", line 45, in split_quoted_strings
ValueError: Unmatched quote
--

Thanks.

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

Did you try putting the path in double quotes?

[Adrian Fita (afita)]

Indeed, putting the path in double quotes works. The exception is not displayed anymore, the entry is added in the Application drop-down list and when I click on Tools->Edit Source the source is correctly opened in the editor.

But now, I'm thinking that instead of the popup window with the exception, a warning with a hint to the user should be displayed, or something.

Also, after the window with the exception is displayed, the entry in the Application drop-down is created after-all, with the incorrect path that causes the exception when I click on Tools->Edit Source.

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