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26.0.91; Infinite recursion in `make-auto-save-file-name' for quoted filenames

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: 30243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de
Subject: bug#30243: 26.0.91; Infinite recursion in `make-auto-save-file-name' for quoted filenames
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:46:13 +0200

> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 09:58:21 -0500
> Cc: 30243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
> 
> > The branch scratch/nonspecial-handlers is based on Emacs 26.0.91, do you
> > plan to merge it there?
> 
> Yeah, I agree with Phillip that breaking "/:" files for the release
> would be quite a severe regression.
> 
> > I feel a little bit uncomfortable with this, because my fix in
> > file-notify-add-watch didn't get heavy testing.
> 
> However, if you think the file-notify fix might possibly affect other
> things, I think leaving that part out for 26.1 would be acceptable.
> 
> Now that the code is ready, perhaps Eli has something to say on where it
> should go?

I think to make up my mind I'd need a few words about each part of the
changes (with the exception of the test suite changes): why is each of
them needed, and what does it do to fix which part of the original
problem.

I also wonder how come we've succeeded to break quoted file names so
fundamentally -- what change did that, and why did we make it on the
release branch?

Thanks.

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