Subject: Re: bug#67438: 29.1; WDired uses `substitute-in-file-name', so `$$' is changed to `$' - undocumented?

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 09:44:45 +0100

On Nov 25 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> WDired interprets file names in the same way, and that is OK because
> anything else would be inconsistent.

If you edit a file name that contains a $ sequence that is altered by
substitute-in-file-name you must change each $ to $$ that you want to
keep.

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