allow "\ " escapes in GHCi commands

It would be nice if, in file names, "\ " were handled as " ". This 
would make the GHCi interface consistent with those of 
Terminal and Hugs.

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changed title from GHCi (Mac OS X) file names to allow "\ " escapes in GHCi commands

Renamed the bug, to clarify what it is all about. GHCi currently does not recognize '\ ' escape sequences in the arguments for the :load command, while hugs does.

This is especially useful on Mac OS X, where

• there is a tradition of using spaces in file and directory names
• the system-supplied Terminal will insert a pathname with properly escaped spaces if you drag a file to a terminal window.

mentioned in commit 3d9f1290

assigned to @trac-rjmccall and unassigned @trac-nobody

I've submitted a solution to this which is currently awaiting discussion.

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With GHC 6.6:

Prelude> :l q\ w.hs
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( q w.hs, interpreted )

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Resolution	ResolvedNoReason → ResolvedFixed
Component	None → GHCi

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Architecture	Unknown → Unknown/Multiple

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mentioned in commit 5e32c914

mentioned in commit 1136a62c

mentioned in commit 63ba2504

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