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dired-do-rename susceptible to .../~/... hijack

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Message #43 received at 16984 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 16984 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: Re: bug#16984: dired-do-rename susceptible to .../~/... hijack
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 20:47:03 -0500

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Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> writes:

> npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net writes:
>>>
>>> What do people think to use the "/:" prefix also for the local part of
>>> remote file names? Then one could use "/ssh:user <at> host:/:/path/~/file",
>>> making substitute-in-file-name a noop.
>>
>> Makes sense to me.
>
> I've added a patch to master which allows quoting the local part of the
> file name. Maybe you could rewrite your patch, using this feature.
>

Something like this?

[v4-0001-Quote-filenames-containing-in-prompts.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

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