Re: dired can't open dir name contains `[' and `]'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Zhang Wei <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:11:06 +0800
> 
> If a directory's name contains `[' and `]' such as `[music]', dired
> can't open it. It display a "No match" message under the dir name other
> than the contents of the dir:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>   d:/download/[music]:
> (No match)
> total used in directory 0 available 676744
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thanks.

This happens because ls-lisp, the Lisp emulation of `ls' used in the
Windows port, interprets shell wildcards in file names, so "[music]"
is interpreted as one of the characters m, u, s, i, c.

Unfortunately, it looks like the function wildcard-to-regexp used by
ls-lisp to convert a wildcard to a regular expression does not have
any way to quote special characters such as [].

So fixing this will take some work.  I hope to find time this weekend
for that, if no one else beats me to it.

> Recent messages:
> ls-lisp-insert-directory: Invalid regexp: "Unmatched [ or [^"

I don't get this message, though.  Can you tell how you managed to
trigger it?