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24.0.92; ! in dired on a file starting with a hyphen

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Message #44 received at 10458 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, 10458 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10458: 24.0.92; ! in dired on a file starting with a hyphen
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 14:50:36 +0100

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

> Indeed.  Quoting the file name by doing something like:
>
>     foobar '-toto' titi
>
> won't help (`foobar' won't see the quoting anyway because the shell
> will strip it away before passing the result to `foobar').
> But we could do something like:
>
>    foobar ./-toto titi
>
> which would not suffer from this problem.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

The discussion then turned to whether "--" was a possibility, and it
isn't.

But adding ./ to file names that start with - should be safe, I think?
So I've now done that in Emacs 29.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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