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Re: dired cannot access file names with a quote


From: Glenn Morris
Subject: Re: dired cannot access file names with a quote
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:49:05 -0500
User-agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)

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.




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