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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | bug#10458: 24.0.92; ! in dired on a file starting with a hyphen |
Date: | Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:30:18 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
> I'm working with Gnu/Linux. If I hit ! in dired on a file starting with > "-", the hyphen is not quoted so that the specified program will > interpret the file name as an option. I guess this is nearly never > what the user wants. Indeed. Quoting the file name by doing something like: foobar '-toto' titi won't help (`foobar' won't see the quoting anyway because the shell will strip it away before passing the result to `foobar'). But we could do something like: foobar ./-toto titi which would not suffer from this problem. Stefan
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