[GTALUG] odd evince command behaviour

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Dhaval Giani via talk <talk at gtalug.org>

| On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 10:58 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

| > This fails:
| >         evince "RE: someting.pdf"
| 
| Stupid question, does replacing " with ' help? IIRC ' does no
| substitution at all. And it just feels like an escape issue. Does it
| think RE is a protocol due to the ":" there. Maybe you can also try to
| escape that ":" and see if it opens.

Good suggestion.  No, using ' instead of " doesn't change what happens.  
So this is evince trying to handle RE: as magical.

Also:
	evince 'RE\: something.pdf'
fails because evince tries to open a file with \ in its name.

So: evince itself is interpreting the : but isn't providing the obvious 
way of quoting the character

Perhaps evince is using some GNOME library to deal with filenames.