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[Marek Bardoński <783900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Your right. I will move this comment as a current main description of
the problem. Thank you!

** Changed in: clicompanion
       Status: Incomplete => Triaged

** Changed in: clicompanion
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Description changed:

- As far as I see, inputs into the variable-?-template should not start with a backslash, which might be possible e.g. when it is asked for a path. 
+ I don't know if this is the same thing or not, but one problem I have
+ noticed is that I can't add filesystem addresses with spaces in them,
+ for example:
+ 
+ Imagine you want to search in a file called 'computer notes' with grep
+ on the command line you would escape the space with a backslash like so:
+ 
+ grep grub ~/computer\ notes
+ 
+ If you add this address to the User Input box to replace a ? it will
+ enter this at the command line:
+ 
+ grep grub ~/computer\
+ 
+ Which of course won't work.
+ 
+ I have tried it without the escape character and also encased in quote
+ marks (both with and without the escape character) and I still can't get
+ it to work.
+ 
+ -------------------
+ [original description]
+ 
+ As far as I see, inputs into the variable-?-template should not start with a backslash, which might be possible e.g. when it is asked for a path.
  This is because in python and in  '\n' the escape function of the backslash affects even a backslash itself and deletes it.
  
  If I am right - and i am not quite sure of it - this should be at least
  be in the documentation.

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Title:
  no backslash as first letter of an entry

Status in CLI Companion:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I don't know if this is the same thing or not, but one problem I have
  noticed is that I can't add filesystem addresses with spaces in them,
  for example:

  Imagine you want to search in a file called 'computer notes' with grep
  on the command line you would escape the space with a backslash like
  so:

  grep grub ~/computer\ notes

  If you add this address to the User Input box to replace a ? it will
  enter this at the command line:

  grep grub ~/computer\

  Which of course won't work.

  I have tried it without the escape character and also encased in quote
  marks (both with and without the escape character) and I still can't
  get it to work.

  -------------------
  [original description]

  As far as I see, inputs into the variable-?-template should not start with a backslash, which might be possible e.g. when it is asked for a path.
  This is because in python and in  '\n' the escape function of the backslash affects even a backslash itself and deletes it.

  If I am right - and i am not quite sure of it - this should be at
  least be in the documentation.

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