Subject: Re: bug#63142: 30.0.50; QUOTING_STYLE can break dired

From: Ruijie Yu <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 23:05:27 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> Does the patch below give good results?
>
> diff --git a/lisp/dired.el b/lisp/dired.el
> index d1471e9..e3a9d7b 100644
> --- a/lisp/dired.el
> +++ b/lisp/dired.el
> @@ -1653,7 +1653,10 @@ dired-insert-directory
>  see `dired-use-ls-dired' for more details.")
>  		       nil))
>  	       dired-use-ls-dired)))
> -	(setq switches (concat "--dired " switches)))
> +        ;; Use -N with --dired, to countermand possible non-default
> +        ;; quoting style, in particular via the environment variable
> +        ;; QUOTINTG_STYLE.
> +	(setq switches (concat "--dired -N " switches)))
>      ;; Expand directory wildcards and fill file-list.
>      (let ((dir-wildcard (insert-directory-wildcard-in-dir-p dir)))
>        (cond (dir-wildcard

Do we need to prevent "wild" users from setting a conflicting quoting
style in `switches', in which case we should swap the two arguments to
`concat'?

-- 
Best,

RY

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