Subject: Re: bug#22938: 24.5; Cannot rename files in directory with escaped spaces

From: Marcin Borkowski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 09:52:10 +0100

On 2016-03-08, at 09:29, Marty Rosenberg <[email-masked]> wrote:

> most of this happens outside of emacs:
> mkdir 'escape\ me'
> cd 'escape\ me'
> touch a
> emacs -Q .
> C-x C-q
> rename the file from a to b
> C-c C-c
>
> when I inspect the error, it looks like it is attempting to rename
> /home/mjrosenb/tmp/escapeme/a to /home/mjrosenb/tmp/escapeme/b
> which fails, because the name of the directory is 'escape\ me', not
> 'escapeme'

Hi,

and thanks for the report.

However, it seems to work just fine on GNU Emacs 25.1.50.6 (commit
ac9a931).  It might have been fixed in the meantime.

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University