From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: "Francesco Potort\x1fFFFFFF" <pot@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dired cannot access file names with a quote
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:26:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvejb3kxoi.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r6f3ux2z.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:28:20 -0500")
> I think the fix is to quote ' as well in shell-quote-wildcard-pattern.
> Could someone on this list double-check?
I haven't had time to check if that makes sense, but if it makes sense,
then " should probably be added as well.
Stefan
> *** emacs/lisp/files.el.~1.896.2.37.~ 2008-01-29 13:34:43.000000000 -0500
> --- emacs/lisp/files.el 2008-02-23 17:25:50.000000000 -0500
> ***************
> *** 4774,4780 ****
> PATTERN is assumed to represent a file-name wildcard suitable for the
> underlying filesystem. For Unix and GNU/Linux, the characters from the
> ! set [ \\t\\n;<>&|()#$] are quoted with a backslash; for DOS/Windows, all
> the parts of the pattern which don't include wildcard characters are
> quoted with double quotes.
> Existing quote characters in PATTERN are left alone, so you can pass
> --- 4774,4780 ----
> PATTERN is assumed to represent a file-name wildcard suitable for the
> underlying filesystem. For Unix and GNU/Linux, the characters from the
> ! set [ \\t\\n;<>&|()#$'] are quoted with a backslash; for DOS/Windows, all
> the parts of the pattern which don't include wildcard characters are
> quoted with double quotes.
> Existing quote characters in PATTERN are left alone, so you can pass
> ***************
> *** 4806,4812 ****
> (concat result (substring pattern beg) "\""))))
> (t
> (let ((beg 0))
> ! (while (string-match "[ \t\n;<>&|()#$]" pattern beg)
> (setq pattern
> (concat (substring pattern 0 (match-beginning 0))
> "\\"
> --- 4806,4812 ----
> (concat result (substring pattern beg) "\""))))
> (t
> (let ((beg 0))
> ! (while (string-match "[ \t\n;<>&|()#$']" pattern beg)
> (setq pattern
> (concat (substring pattern 0 (match-beginning 0))
> "\\"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-24 0:26 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
2008-02-24 0:26 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-02-25 17:41 ` Chong Yidong
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-03 14:47 Francesco Potorti`
2007-10-05 7:38 ` Glenn Morris
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