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)?
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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
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2013-06-21 22:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-06-22 15:39 ` Stefan Monnier
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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
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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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