From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10458: 24.0.92; ! in dired on a file starting with a hyphen Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:30:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87wr92j6y6.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326072663 32707 80.91.229.12 (9 Jan 2012 01:31:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 01:31:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10458@debbugs.gnu.org To: michael_heerdegen@web.de Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 09 02:30:59 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rk44f-0004Nu-A7 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:30:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40011 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rk44e-0007XY-BN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:30:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55520) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rk44a-0007XI-Gf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:30:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rk44Z-0007mn-Ek for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:30:52 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55819) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rk44Z-0007mj-Aq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:30:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rk44k-00072r-8U for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:31:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:31:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10458 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 10458-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10458.132607263427046 (code B ref 10458); Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:31:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10458) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Jan 2012 01:30:34 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50492 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rk44H-00072A-Fb for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:30:34 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:53908) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rk44F-000723-JP for 10458@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:30:32 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id q091UJWh025162; Sun, 8 Jan 2012 20:30:19 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A277D58F7E; Sun, 8 Jan 2012 20:30:18 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87wr92j6y6.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:05:37 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4095=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9309 : core <4095> : streams <718001> : uri <1043276> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:55557 Archived-At: > 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