https://www.ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=403 SyMenu - Troubleshooting & Bug Reports - "." in a command parameter gets expanded - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 23 Jan 2016 14:04:30 GMT Sat, 23 Jan 2016 14:04:30 GMT https://www.ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=403 So we can partially intend the ^ as an escape char. In the future we can extend its value as escaper if useful.

To summarize the replacement rules are:
.\ becomes D:\SyMenu\ProgramFiles\ (this is only an example of a possible resolution)
^.\ becomes .\
^^.\ becomes ^.\]]> Sat, 23 Jan 2016 14:04:30 GMT https://www.ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=403 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:37:09 GMT https://www.ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=403 So if you write ^. I will leave the dot unresolved removing the ^.
If you need to leave the ^ character to escape the . even in the final command you can escape the escape character in this way ^^.
So the escaping chain will be
SyMenu ^^. -> ^.
The final command ^. -> .]]> Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:45:01 GMT https://www.ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=403
Sadly, what gets echoed is the path to the current directory.
I got excited when I discovered that "echo ^." didn't have that problem, but in non-CMD.exe programs, ^ just gets passed through.

So the question is, is there a SyMenu way to escape a "." so that it can get passed through to a program, instead of being modified from "." to the current directory path on the way?

In other words, not all "." are paths, or path prefixes. Sometimes, they are just a parameter to a command.
edited by Glenn on 18/01/2016]]> Mon, 18 Jan 2016 08:44:32 GMT