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25.0.50; Dired -- add support for ls --time-style with a space

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Message #22 received at 18875 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Keith David Bershatsky <esq <at> lawlist.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 18875 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18875: 25.0.50; Dired -- add support for ls --time-style
 with a space
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 16:21:17 +0200

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

> So...  dired supports spaces in command line arguments, but you have to
> quote the argument, so I'm closing this bug report.  However, there's a
> bug in `split-string-and-unquote', so I'm opening a new report for that.

Or...  the problem isn't in that function -- it works as designed, and
parses a Lisp-style string correctly.

`insert-directory' should be using `split-string-shell-command' instead,
and I've now done that in Emacs 28.

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