From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: michael_heerdegen@web.de
Cc: 10458@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10458: 24.0.92; ! in dired on a file starting with a hyphen
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:30:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd3athdgy.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wr92j6y6.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:05:37 +0100")
> I'm working with Gnu/Linux. If I hit ! in dired on a file starting with
> "-", the hyphen is not quoted so that the specified program will
> interpret the file name as an option. I guess this is nearly never
> what the user wants.
Indeed. Quoting the file name by doing something like:
foobar '-toto' titi
won't help (`foobar' won't see the quoting anyway because the shell
will strip it away before passing the result to `foobar').
But we could do something like:
foobar ./-toto titi
which would not suffer from this problem.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-09 1:30 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 [this message]
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
2022-03-28 3:02 ` Drew Adams
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