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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: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Alex Branham <branham <at> utexas.edu>
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 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

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