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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: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25423 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: 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


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J. Alexander Branham
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