From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: "Francesco Potortì" <pot@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dired cannot access file names with a quote
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:55:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxvji5xx.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0ylk5b1e72.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Sat\, 23 Feb 2008 17\:49\:05 -0500")
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> Chong Yidong wrote:
>
>> I think the fix is to quote ' as well in shell-quote-wildcard-pattern.
>> Could someone on this list double-check?
>
> Won't that break things like 'foo*' that people might want to pass to
> shell-quote-wildcard-pattern, as per the comment in the function's
> doc-string?
>
> 'foo*' and \'foo*\' are not the same to the shell.
Don't the quote characters referred to in the docstring refer to
backslash (\)?
The only place that calls shell-quote-wildcard-pattern in the Emacs
source tree is insert-directory, and the logic in insert-directory
indicates that shell-quote-wildcard-pattern is simply intended to
quote special characters that would screw up the call to `ls'. Is
there any way of passing a ' character in the file argument to
insert-directory, except as a literal part of a filename?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-23 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-21 20:31 [jidanni@jidanni.org: find-library-name perhaps should try .emacs] Richard Stallman
2008-02-23 22:28 ` dired cannot access file names with a quote Chong Yidong
2008-02-23 22:49 ` Glenn Morris
2008-02-23 23:55 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-02-24 0:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-25 17:41 ` Chong Yidong
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2007-10-03 14:47 Francesco Potorti`
2007-10-05 7:38 ` Glenn Morris
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