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25.1; Can't use dired with spaces or special characters in folder names using tramp

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From: Alex Branham <branham <at> utexas.edu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.1;
 Can't use dired with spaces or special characters in folder names
 using tramp
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:00:31 -0600

I can't navigate (or do anything else like dired-do-chmod) using dired when directories have spaces or special characters over a tramp connection. I think it's because Emacs is putting quotes '' or "" around the folders in question.

Using `emacs -Q` and navigate to a directory like below. I can hit RET to go to Folder1 but neither 'Folder 2' nor "Folder's 4". Note that the folders don't actually have quotation marks in their name --- Emacs is adding that in the dired buffer. 

  drwxrwsr-x  3 owner group 4096 Jan  9 19:29  Folder1
  drwxrwsr-x  3 owner group 4096 Jan  9 20:47 'Folder 2'
  drwxrwsr-x  3 owner group 4096 Jan  9 19:30 "Folder's_3"


In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.5)
 of 2016-12-23 built on juergen
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11804000
System Description:	Arch Linux

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 'configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib
 --localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xft
 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe
 -fstack-protector-strong' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro'

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-- 
J. Alexander Branham
PhD Candidate
Department of Government
University of Texas at Austin
https://www.jabranham.com

Message #8 received at 25423 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Alex Branham <branham <at> utexas.edu>
Cc: 25423 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25423: 25.1;
 Can't use dired with spaces or special characters in folder names
 using tramp
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:09:18 -0500

Alex Branham wrote:

> Using `emacs -Q` and navigate to a directory like below. I can hit RET
> to go to Folder1 but neither 'Folder 2' nor "Folder's 4". Note that
> the folders don't actually have quotation marks in their name ---
> Emacs is adding that in the dired buffer.
>
>   drwxrwsr-x  3 owner group 4096 Jan  9 19:29  Folder1
>   drwxrwsr-x  3 owner group 4096 Jan  9 20:47 'Folder 2'
>   drwxrwsr-x  3 owner group 4096 Jan  9 19:30 "Folder's_3"


Looks like newer coreutils ls's quoting, so probably already fixed in
Emacs by

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2016-07/msg00171.html

Message #13 received at 25423 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alex Branham <branham <at> utexas.edu>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25423 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25423: 25.1;
 Can't use dired with spaces or special characters in folder names
 using tramp
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:16:24 -0600

Thanks for the reply.

The commit happened in July of last year, is it not in Emacs 25.1? (Also, is there an easy way to see that information for myself?)

Alex 

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Alex Branham wrote:
>
>> Using `emacs -Q` and navigate to a directory like below. I can hit RET
>> to go to Folder1 but neither 'Folder 2' nor "Folder's 4". Note that
>> the folders don't actually have quotation marks in their name ---
>> Emacs is adding that in the dired buffer.
>>
>>   drwxrwsr-x  3 owner group 4096 Jan  9 19:29  Folder1
>>   drwxrwsr-x  3 owner group 4096 Jan  9 20:47 'Folder 2'
>>   drwxrwsr-x  3 owner group 4096 Jan  9 19:30 "Folder's_3"
>
>
> Looks like newer coreutils ls's quoting, so probably already fixed in
> Emacs by
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2016-07/msg00171.html


-- 
J. Alexander Branham
PhD Candidate
Department of Government
University of Texas at Austin
https://www.jabranham.com

Message #16 received at 25423 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Alex Branham <branham <at> utexas.edu>
Cc: 25423 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25423: 25.1;
 Can't use dired with spaces or special characters in folder names
 using tramp
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:16:39 -0500

PS probably you can add QUOTING_STYLE=literal to your environment, or
tramp-remote-process-environment, to avoid this.

Message #19 received at 25423 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alex Branham <branham <at> utexas.edu>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25423 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25423: 25.1;
 Can't use dired with spaces or special characters in folder names
 using tramp
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:21:09 -0600

Thanks, adding it to tramp-remote-process-environment works!

Alex

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> PS probably you can add QUOTING_STYLE=literal to your environment, or
> tramp-remote-process-environment, to avoid this.


-- 
J. Alexander Branham
PhD Candidate
Department of Government
University of Texas at Austin
https://www.jabranham.com

Message #22 received at 25423 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Alex Branham <branham <at> utexas.edu>
Cc: 25423 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25423: 25.1;
 Can't use dired with spaces or special characters in folder names
 using tramp
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:21:45 -0500

Alex Branham wrote:

> The commit happened in July of last year, is it not in Emacs 25.1?

No. It will be in whatever-next-release-from-master-is (26.1).

> (Also, is there an easy way to see that information for myself?)

You could look at tramp-sh.el in your version of Emacs.
Otherwise, I don't know how you tell without having a copy of the Emacs
git repository.

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