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From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to create a directory containing spaces in dired-mode?
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:33:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc57zls3.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2123.1371798504.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch> writes:

> Using '+' allows to create directories in dired-mode. When
> typing the name of the new directory, 'space' does not give a
> space. The question is how to get spaces in directory names
> then?

OK, you wanted it to work, and you got answers how to make it
work. But - why would you want spaces in file names? Wouldn't that
just lead to confusion (on `ls', you think it is two files) and
inconvenience (having to escape spaces in the shell)?

-- 
Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below)
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       reply	other threads:[~2013-06-21 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.2123.1371798504.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-21 12:33 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2013-06-21 13:02   ` How to create a directory containing spaces in dired-mode? notbob
2013-06-21 13:23     ` Emanuel Berg
2013-06-21 19:21   ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]   ` <mailman.2159.1371842500.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-21 22:33     ` Emanuel Berg
2013-06-22 15:39       ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]       ` <mailman.2207.1371915908.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-22 16:36         ` Emanuel Berg
2013-06-21  7:07 Marius Hofert
2013-06-21  8:59 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-06-21 10:20   ` Vlad Piersec
2013-06-21 10:31     ` Marius Hofert
2013-06-21 12:34       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-21 15:06         ` Drew Adams
     [not found]         ` <mailman.2143.1371827179.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-21 15:17           ` Emanuel Berg
2013-06-21 15:03       ` Drew Adams
2013-06-21 18:11         ` Marius Hofert
2013-06-21 12:21 ` Tim Visher
2013-06-21 13:42   ` Marius Hofert

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