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I installed sdkman from within babun on a Windows machine. Unfortunately, on Windows, the PATH environment variable often contains a free space because of programs installed in the "Program Files" or "Program Files (x86)" directories, e.g.:

PATH=/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Attachmate/Reflection X Advantage:/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Roxio Shared/DLLShared:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Perforce:/cygdrive/d/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_60/bin

The embedded spaces cause trouble for the sdk command. The output from "sdk ls gradle" is as follows:

{ ETMS } master » sdk ls gradle                                               /cygdrive/c/Users/Dave/IdeaProjects/ETMS
__sdkman_path_contains:local:2: not valid in this context: (x86)/Attachmate/Reflection
Files=''
Files=''
Files=''
Files=''
SQL=''
Files=''
Files=''
Files=''

Can sdkman be enhanced to regard the colon (":") character as the only valid separator of path elements on Windows?

A workaround is to manually determine the 8-character DOS alias for each directory name that contains spaces, and substitute the value. For example, on my machine,

/cygdrive/d/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_60/bin and
/cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Java/jdk1.8.0_60/bin are aliases.

Something you can add to install documentation?

While installing SDKMAN on Mac OSX, I noticed a tip that helps a lot. Normally, when setting up SDK on mac, the dot-folders in your home directory are all hidden and the IntelliJ-IDEA IDE hides those folders from you when browsing for your Java SDK.

If you use an IDE like IntelliJ-IDEA:

open ~/.sdkman # to open Finder in secret dot-folder
Cntrl-Command-T # to add to favorites
Then, open your IDE, configure your SDK in your ide and you can browse to the folder as a favorite.

Gitter link is bad (double /) resulting in a 404

http://gitter.im/sdkman//user-issues