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bug#10458: 24.0.92; ! in dired on a file starting with a hyphen
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#10458: 24.0.92; ! in dired on a file starting with a hyphen |
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Sun, 20 Feb 2022 14:50:36 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
> 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.
(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)
The discussion then turned to whether "--" was a possibility, and it
isn't.
But adding ./ to file names that start with - should be safe, I think?
So I've now done that in Emacs 29.
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bug#10458: 24.0.92; ! in dired on a file starting with a hyphen, Stefan Monnier, 2022/02/20