From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Gereon Kaiping <gereon.kaiping@gmail.com>
Cc: 24184@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24184: 25.0.94; dired-copy-filename-as-kill does not quote or properly separate file names
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 01:13:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7u45ahp.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+mEJ1sFNeFZsCpghB_wyhAnQpRs8gCdTp1w-h-VutHcDG4m6g@mail.gmail.com> (Gereon Kaiping's message of "Mon, 8 Aug 2016 16:08:40 +0200")
Gereon Kaiping <gereon.kaiping@gmail.com> writes:
> $ touch "this file" "that file"
> $ emacs -Q
> C-x C-f RET m m w
>
> gives
>
> that file this file
>
> but should give something like
>
> "that file" "this file"
>
> or
>
> that file
> this file
>
> to be much more useful. The former looks cleanest, because then the
> content can be yanked as elisp list, but would of course require that
> not only filenames are quoted, but that also " be quoted inside file
> names.
Hm... I guess that depends on what the purpose of the copy-as-kill is.
In the single file case, we probably don't want to quote "this file"
because then we can't use that to yank it into the file prompt, for
instance.
But in the several-file case, we can't use it for that anyway, and then
quoting these file names is probably better than not.
Hm...
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-08 14:08 bug#24184: 25.0.94; dired-copy-filename-as-kill does not quote or properly separate file names Gereon Kaiping
2018-04-15 23:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2018-04-16 20:40 ` Juri Linkov
2018-04-16 22:35 ` Drew Adams
2021-08-15 12:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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