find-name-dired should not escape the braces in windows environment

find-name-dired should not escape the braces in windows environment

[Lalit Mohan Tripathi]

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In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195)
 of 2004-03-11 on NYAUMO
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.2)'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

  ~/Desktop/emacs-21.3/bin/:
  find . \( -name '*.c' \) -exec ls -ld {} \;
  find: paths must precede expression
  Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression]
  
  find exited abnormally with code 1 at Fri Oct 07 08:57:32

  Please let me know how to fix it at lalit.mohan@samsung.com,
  currently I use batch file in Windows to type the above command
  by replacing \( with ( and then run-it, as an
  alternate way to perform this.


Recent input:
   Used  M-x find-name-dired


Recent messages:
Loading mule-diag...done
Making completion list...
Quit
Loading emacsbug...done
byte-code: Quit
Loading find-dired...done
find-dired *Find* finished.
keyboard-quit: Quit
Undo!
keyboard-quit: Quit

Re: find-name-dired should not escape the braces in windows environment

[Kevin Rodgers]

Lalit Mohan Tripathi wrote:
 >   ~/Desktop/emacs-21.3/bin/:
 >   find . \( -name '*.c' \) -exec ls -ld {} \;
 >   find: paths must precede expression
 >   Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression]
 >
 >   find exited abnormally with code 1 at Fri Oct 07 08:57:32
 >
 >   Please let me know how to fix it at lalit.mohan@samsung.com,
 >   currently I use batch file in Windows to type the above command
 >   by replacing \( with ( and then run-it, as an
 >   alternate way to perform this.
 >
 > Recent input:
 >    Used  M-x find-name-dired

Set shell-file-name to a shell that understands quoted parentheses.

Note: In American English, "(" and ")" are parentheses, "[" and "]" are
brackets, and "{" and "}" are braces.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers