Subject: Re: bug#24184: 25.0.94; dired-copy-filename-as-kill does not quote or properly separate file names

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 01:13:38 +0200

Gereon Kaiping <[email-masked]> writes:

> $ touch "this file" "that file"
> $ emacs -Q
> C-x C-f RET m m w
>
> gives
>
> that file this file
>
> but should give something like
>
> "that file" "this file"
>
> or
>
> that file
> this file
>
> to be much more useful. The former looks cleanest, because then the
> content can be yanked as elisp list, but would of course require that
> not only filenames are quoted, but that also " be quoted inside file
> names.

Hm...  I guess that depends on what the purpose of the copy-as-kill is.
In the single file case, we probably don't want to quote "this file"
because then we can't use that to yank it into the file prompt, for
instance.

But in the several-file case, we can't use it for that anyway, and then
quoting these file names is probably better than not.

Hm...

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