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bug#10458: 24.0.92; ! in dired on a file starting with a hyphen
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#10458: 24.0.92; ! in dired on a file starting with a hyphen |
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Sun, 20 Feb 2022 15:10:05 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> It changes semantics. The list of file names passed to a command
> doesn't necessarily mean "open each file and process it", it could
> mean something else, like "make a list of files". So I don't think we
> should do that.
Commands like "echo" will behave differently, but I tried to imagine
other functions where this would make a difference, and I failed. Do
you have any examples?
The old behaviour would misbehave for the vast majority of commands, so
I think it's an improvement.
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bug#10458: 24.0.92; ! in dired on a file starting with a hyphen, Stefan Monnier, 2022/02/20