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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, 10458@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10458: 24.0.92; ! in dired on a file starting with a hyphen
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 14:29:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877d9nc9nh.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvpmnfiplk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 21 Feb 2022 21:51:43 -0500")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> I was thinking of making it less-DWIMish and leave it in control of
> the user.  IOW, rather than try to magically "do the right thing" for
> files starting with `-`, allow the users to request explicitly absolute
> file names (maybe with a prefix command or something like that) when
> *they* see it's needed.

The prefix is already taken on the `!' command...

> It won't fix the user's mistakes, but it will give a simpler semantics
> on which powerusers can more easily rely.

Using -file-names as they are is a usability problem, and may be a
security problem (the file name may have been created by someone with
the idea in mind that interpreted as a command line switch it'll lead to
nefarious results), so I don't think `!' should go back to the old
behaviour by default.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-22 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-08 20:05 bug#10458: 24.0.92; ! in dired on a file starting with a hyphen Michael Heerdegen
2012-01-09  1:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-09 17:27   ` Glenn Morris
2012-01-09 19:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-10  0:40       ` Richard Stallman
2012-01-09 22:40     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-10  7:04       ` Jan D.
2012-01-10  9:02       ` Glenn Morris
2012-01-10 14:23         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-10 17:11           ` Glenn Morris
2012-01-10 17:18             ` Glenn Morris
2012-01-10 20:03               ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-10 21:45                 ` Jan Djärv
2022-02-20 13:50   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-20 14:07     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-20 14:10       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-20 14:23         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-20 14:31           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-20 14:40             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-21 13:46               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-20 15:14     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-21 13:49       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-22  1:32         ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-02-22  1:33           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-22  2:51         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-22 13:29           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-03-28  3:02 ` Drew Adams

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