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25.2; Not possible to use -prune with find-dired

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Allen Li <darkfeline <at> felesatra.moe>

Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 06:02:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 25.2

Done: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Allen Li <darkfeline <at> felesatra.moe>
To: 27456 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27456: 25.2; Not possible to use -prune with find-dired
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 23:00:48 -0700

It is not possible to effectively use the -prune action with find-dired.

With plain find, -prune would be used like:

    find . -name "foo*" -prune -o -name "*.el" -ls

However, find-dired wraps everything:

    (find-dired "." "-name \\"foo*\\" -prune -o -name \\"*.el\\" -ls")

results in the equivalent call:

    find . \( -name "foo*" -prune -o -name "*.el" -ls \) -ls

Notably, this will list files matching foo*

Unfortunately, I'm not sure if there are any easy remedies.  Perhaps
find-dired should refrain from appending -ls if ARGS already contains
-ls.

In GNU Emacs 25.2.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.10)
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 260 days ago.

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