File operations should consider adding quotes when dealing with spaces

[martin-braun]

Is this a question?
Please start a new Q&A discussion instead of raising a feature request.

Can this functionality be implemented utilising API?
No, and it would make sense to change this for a better default behavior.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When hitting . while being on an object in the tree, it will enter command mode while having the absolute path already inserted. This is nice and all, until the absolute path contains spaces.

Describe the solution you'd like
I think it would make sense to surround the path with quotes by default to circumvent the problem.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Inserting it on my own, but it feels repetitive.

Additional context
It should be discussed if quotes can cause any problems. I only ever use this feature to launch OS specific commands with bang, so I don't know.

[alex-courtis]

That would be a good enhancement.

Surrounding the path with quotes is arguably non-breaking.

vim.fn.fnescape or similar could be used, although it may not work on some OS variants such as windows powershell.

Alternative: user optionally provides a function to escape the absolute path, something like:

node.run.cmd({opts})                            *nvim-tree-api.node.run.cmd()*
    Enter |cmdline| with the full path of the node and the cursor at the start
    of the line.

    Parameters: ~
      • {opts} (table) optional parameters

    Options: ~
      • {format} (fun(absolute_path: string): string)  format the path before
                                                       inserting