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26.0.50; In dired: 'dired-do-compress-to' fails when filenames cotains space characters

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From: José L. Doménech
 <domenechjosel <at> gmail.com>
To: José L. Doménech <domenechjosel <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 24620 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Subject: bug#24620: 26.0.50; In dired: 'dired-do-compress-to' fails when filenames cotains space	characters
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 21:29:30 +0200

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On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:51:15 +0200,
Noam Postavsky wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 2:39 PM, José L. Doménech
> <domenechjosel <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am getting a "replace-regexp-in-string: Invalid use of ‘\’ in replacement text"
> > error using 'shell-quote-argument' on this case.
> >
> > It seems that 'shell-quoted-argument' is adding double '\', that is,
> > '\\', in front of the spaces instead of surrounding the argument with quotes.
> >
> > And 'replace-match' which is called by 'replace-regexp-in-string' for the parameter
> > substitution ("%i", "%o") in the function 'dired-do-compress-to' doesn't like it.
> 
> Does passing non-nil for the LITERAL parameter to replace-regexp-in-string help?
> 
Yes indeed!

So the patch becomes something like:

[dired-aux.el.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

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