GNU bug report logs - #10458
24.0.92; ! in dired on a file starting with a hyphen

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de

Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 20:13:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.0.92

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 10458 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de
Cc: 10458 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10458: 24.0.92; ! in dired on a file starting with a hyphen
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:30:18 -0500

> I'm working with Gnu/Linux.  If I hit ! in dired on a file starting with
> "-", the hyphen is not quoted so that the specified program will
> interpret the file name as an option.  I guess this is nearly never
> what the user wants.

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.


        Stefan
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