GNU bug report logs - #48659
Escapes are deleted after executing "dired-toggle-read-only" in *Find* buffer

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 20:54:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #71 received at 48659 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller <at> live.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Rodrigo Morales <moralesrodrigo1100 <at> gmail.com>, 48659 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48659: Escapes are deleted after executing
 "dired-toggle-read-only" in *Find* buffer
Date: Sat, 29 May 2021 08:29:26 +0200
Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Rodrigo Morales <moralesrodrigo1100 <at> gmail.com>
>> Cc: 48659 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 18:55:14 -0500
>> 
>> > Can anyone else reproduce this strange problem?  I don't see how we
>> > could debug this without being able to reproduce.
>> 
>> Here you have two recordings that might make things clearer. Perhaps, I
>> wasn't clear enough in the first messaage I sent and that's why you are
>> not able to reproduce it, so I hope these recordings will present more
>> context regarding this "possible bug".
>> 
>> In the following GIF, you can see that spaces are removed after having
>> finished editing the dired buffer through "dired-toggle-read-only". This
>> can be seen in the output of the "watch" command that is shown in the
>> running shell at the right side.
>
> I believe you.  I just don't see this in the GNU/Linux system where I
> tried this (and also on MS-Windows, FWIW).  In my testing the file
> names remain intact after "C-x C-q", including the space characters.
>
> So either the recipe is not complete, or I somehow didn't follow it
> 100%, or something else is at work on your system that doesn't happen
> on mine.  Thus my question whether someone else sees that who could
> then debug the problem.

If it is of any worth, I am using 27.1 on Win 10 and 28.0.50 compiled on
27th march on Arch Linux and I can't reproduce either. Spaces in names
seems correctly preserved on my machine.




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