Subject: Re: bug#48659: Escapes are deleted after executing "dired-toggle-read-only" in *Find* buffer

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 17:47:08 +0200

Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> writes:

> wdired-normalize-filename doesn't handle "\\ ".
>
> (read "\"\\ \"") => ""

Indeed:

  (wdired-normalize-filename "a\\ b" 'unquotep) ==> "ab"

- that's the culprit.

But now I don't understand why `read' behaves that way.

Regards,

Michael.