Subject: Re: 23.0.92; Dired can't visit file with backslash

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:47:07 -0400

Óscar Fuentes <[email-masked]> writes:

> Thanks for fixing the bug that was preventing visiting the file.
>
> Is it correct that \foo is displayed as \\foo on the dired buffer?

Not really, but it will require a lot of work to change that (it's based
on some long-ago design decisions in Dired).