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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 71935@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71935: split-string-and-unquote mishandles dired-listing-switches with '
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2024 10:43:52 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ed88707b.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86sewoqqpk.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Fri, 05 Jul 2024 09:48:39 +0300)

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: 71935@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2024 09:48:39 +0300
> 
> >> Thanks, that's what I had in mind.  Please install on the emacs-30
> >> branch.
> >
> > On second thought: could there be options that include shell
> > wildcards, which therefore should not be quoted?  If so, perhaps
> > instead of shell-quote-argument we should use
> > shell-quote-wildcard-pattern?
> 
> Indeed, there are ls switches that use wildcards, e.g.
> ‘--hide=PATTERN’ and ‘--ignore=PATTERN’.  But it seems
> they are ignored anyway while using wildcards with 'ls -d',
> so I can't test them.  What I can confirm only is that with
> 
> 1. (setopt dired-listing-switches "-al --block-size='1 --ignore=system*")
> 2. C-x d /tmp/s*
> 
> the switches are correctly quoted by 'shell-quote-wildcard-pattern':
> 
> "ls -d --dired -N -al --block-size=\\'1 --ignore=system* -- s*"

Thanks.  So I think this is a better solution for this tricky problem.





  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-05  7:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-04  6:51 bug#71935: split-string-and-unquote mishandles dired-listing-switches with ' Juri Linkov
2024-07-04  8:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-04 16:10   ` Juri Linkov
2024-07-04 17:56     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-04 18:12       ` Juri Linkov
2024-07-04 18:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-04 18:54           ` Juri Linkov
2024-07-04 19:03             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-04 19:11               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-05  6:48                 ` Juri Linkov
2024-07-05  7:43                   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-07-07  6:57               ` Juri Linkov

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