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16.5. Trouble-shooting Failure to Open Filenames Containing Spaces

On Windows: When using Windows File Types or Open With to cause Python files to be opened with Wing, some versions of Windows set up the wrong command line for opening the file. You can fix this using regedt32.exe, regedit.exe, or similar tool to edit the following registry location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Applications\wing.exe\shell\open\command

The problem is that the association stored there is missing quotes around the %1 argument. It should instead read as follows:

"C:\Program Files\Wing IDE\bin\wing.exe" "%1" %*

On Linux: KDE's Konqueror has the same problem that file names passed on the command line to applications bound to a file type are not enclosed with quotes, so the command line is not parsed correctly. We do not currently have a work-around for this problem.