Subject: Re: bug#25423: 25.1; Can't use dired with spaces or special characters in folder names using tramp

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
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