Subject: bug#73445: [PATCH] image-dired: quote file name fore search-forward-regexp

From: Vitaliy Chepelev <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 04:55:46 -0000

Tags: patch

In GNU Emacs 29.4 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of
 2024-07-29 built on localhost
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101013
System Description: Gentoo Linux

From d0e7b67e10d3ecb34969c0af18ef6317fd96636d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: none <none>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 04:25:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] image-dired: quote file name fore search-forward-regexp

For example when you have file with name "file[image].jpg". and use M-x image-dired you will have error: image-dired-list-tags: Invalid regexp: "Unmatched [ or [^"
---
 lisp/image/image-dired-dired.el |  2 +-
 lisp/image/image-dired-tags.el  | 10 +++++-----
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/image/image-dired-dired.el b/lisp/image/image-dired-dired.el
index 7219a10..c4e82e9 100644
--- a/lisp/image/image-dired-dired.el
+++ b/lisp/image/image-dired-dired.el
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ matching tag will be marked in the Dired buffer."
                       (file-name-directory curr-file)))
         (setq curr-file (file-name-nondirectory curr-file))
         (goto-char (point-min))
-        (when (search-forward-regexp (format "\\s %s[*@]?$" curr-file) nil t)
+        (when (search-forward-regexp (format "\\s %s[*@]?$" (regexp-quote curr-file)) nil t)
           (setq hits (+ hits 1))
           (dired-mark 1))))
     (message "%d files with matching tag marked" hits)))
diff --git a/lisp/image/image-dired-tags.el b/lisp/image/image-dired-tags.el
index 54595ad..828372e 100644
--- a/lisp/image/image-dired-tags.el
+++ b/lisp/image/image-dired-tags.el
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ FILE-TAGS is an alist in the following form:
         (setq file (car elt)
               tag (cdr elt))
         (goto-char (point-min))
-        (if (search-forward-regexp (format "^%s.*$" file) nil t)
+        (if (search-forward-regexp (format "^%s.*$" (regexp-quote file)) nil t)
             (progn
               (setq end (point))
               (beginning-of-line)
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ FILES can be a name of a single file (a string) or a list of file names."
           (error "Files must be a string or a list of strings!")))
       (dolist (file files)
         (goto-char (point-min))
-        (when (search-forward-regexp (format "^%s;" file) nil t)
+        (when (search-forward-regexp (format "^%s;" (regexp-quote file)) nil t)
           (end-of-line)
           (setq end (point))
           (beginning-of-line)
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ Value is a list of all tags for FILE."
   (image-dired-sane-db-file)
   (image-dired--with-db-file
     (let (end (tags ""))
-      (when (search-forward-regexp (format "^%s" file) nil t)
+      (when (search-forward-regexp (format "^%s" (regexp-quote file)) nil t)
         (end-of-line)
         (setq end (point))
         (beginning-of-line)
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ FILE-COMMENTS is an alist on the following form:
         (setq file (car elt)
               comment (cdr elt))
         (goto-char (point-min))
-        (if (search-forward-regexp (format "^%s.*$" file) nil t)
+        (if (search-forward-regexp (format "^%s.*$" (regexp-quote file)) nil t)
             (progn
               (setq end (point))
               (beginning-of-line)
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ Optionally use old comment from FILE as initial value."
   (image-dired-sane-db-file)
   (image-dired--with-db-file
     (let (end comment-beg-pos comment-end-pos comment)
-      (when (search-forward-regexp (format "^%s" file) nil t)
+      (when (search-forward-regexp (format "^%s" (regexp-quote file)) nil t)
         (end-of-line)
         (setq end (point))
         (beginning-of-line)
--
2.44.2

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