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25.1.50; dired-copy-filename-as-kill: Copy just non-empty strings

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Message #11 received at 24103 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 24103 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#24103: 25.1.50; Add white space separator when appending
 string
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 19:27:30 +0900 (JST)

On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Tino Calancha wrote:
>> emacs -Q ~
Please, require dired-aux to do my example, as follows:
emacs -Q ~ --eval="(require 'dired-aux)"
;; for 'dired-subdir-min'

On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Isn't this second-guessing what the user means?  What if the kill ring
> has "/foo/bar/" and the user wants to append a file name to that, thus
> creating a valid absolute file name?
Maybe, but not so standard way; we can skip that part of the fix, though.
The command provide a nice way to do that as mentioned in the doc string:
C-u 0 w

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