GNU bug report logs - #48657
Defvar delimiter for dired-copy-filename-as-kill

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Rodrigo Morales <moralesrodrigo1100 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 19:21:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 48657 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, moralesrodrigo1100 <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#48657: Defvar delimiter for dired-copy-filename-as-kill
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 07:27:19 -0700

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Perhaps we could just detect if any of filenames have spaces in them
>> and use null byte delimiters if they do?
>
> Or quote those that do?

Sure, that's another alternative.  We would need to decide which type of
quoting though, and I guess that will depend on what the user wants this
for.  For example, the quoting rules will be subtly different if the
user wants this for a shell script or for Emacs Lisp.  It seems
non-trivial to me.
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