Addendum: I have discovered that there are multiple ways to rename a file in dired. I simply deleted the a, and replaced it with a b, while dired was in Editable mode. On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Marty Rosenberg wrote: > Strange, I just checked out git master, and reproduced it (I > used e0400b72a24). Did you both quote and escape the space? (alternately, > you can run mkdir escape\\\ me) I've reproduced this on both an ubuntu > system, an arch-linux system, and a gentoo system. I haven't tried on a > redhat based system, nor on OSX. > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 3:52 AM, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > >> >> On 2016-03-08, at 09:29, Marty Rosenberg >> wrote: >> >> > most of this happens outside of emacs: >> > mkdir 'escape\ me' >> > cd 'escape\ me' >> > touch a >> > emacs -Q . >> > C-x C-q >> > rename the file from a to b >> > C-c C-c >> > >> > when I inspect the error, it looks like it is attempting to rename >> > /home/mjrosenb/tmp/escapeme/a to /home/mjrosenb/tmp/escapeme/b >> > which fails, because the name of the directory is 'escape\ me', not >> > 'escapeme' >> >> Hi, >> >> and thanks for the report. >> >> However, it seems to work just fine on GNU Emacs 25.1.50.6 (commit >> ac9a931). It might have been fixed in the meantime. >> >> Best, >> >> -- >> Marcin Borkowski >> http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski >> Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science >> Adam Mickiewicz University >> > >