Pass list of files with spaces in them

Question

Hello there, I have a problem where if I want to send a list files to a command like so:

command! tag :Bg tmsu tag --tags=\"%a\" %f
nnoremap <silent> ,t :tag<space>

This is meant to tag a selection of files with a named tag. But if the file names have spaces in them, it won't work since vifm isn't escaping the spaces. How can I fix this?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Hi,

Vifm does escape spaces, not sure how they would be unescaped. Maybe try these versions:

command! tag :Bg tmsu tag --tags=\"%a\" %%f
command! tag tmsu tag --tags=\"%a\" %f %i

tmsu should finish fast, so I don't know why you decided to use :Bg.