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bug#63142: 30.0.50; QUOTING_STYLE can break dired
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#63142: 30.0.50; QUOTING_STYLE can break dired |
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Fri, 28 Apr 2023 13:28:42 +0300 |
> From: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org>
> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 11:35:09 +0200
>
>
> If the environment variable QUOTING_STYLE is set, GNU "ls" can return a
> format that dired doesn't like.
>
> QUOTING_STYLE=shell will quote files with spaces such as 'a b', and
> trying to interact with these files with dired results in:
>
> dired-get-file-for-visit: File no longer exists; type g to update Dired buffer
>
> Interestingly, even using "ls --dired" does the same if QUOTING_STYLE is
> set.
>
> Should dired handle QUOTING_STYLE (looking at the coreutils manual it
> seems that other tools besides ls handle it) or should dired actively
> suppress the quoting mode?
I'd suggest first to report this to Coreutils maintainers: it makes
little sense to me to honor QUOTING_STYLE when --dired is specified.
If the Coreutils folks decline to handle this, then I guess we will
have to.
Thanks.
- bug#63142: 30.0.50; QUOTING_STYLE can break dired, Yuri D'Elia, 2023/04/28
- bug#63142: 30.0.50; QUOTING_STYLE can break dired,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#63142: 30.0.50; QUOTING_STYLE can break dired, Yuri D'Elia, 2023/04/28
- bug#63142: 30.0.50; QUOTING_STYLE can break dired, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/04/28
- bug#63142: 30.0.50; QUOTING_STYLE can break dired, Yuri D'Elia, 2023/04/28
- bug#63142: 30.0.50; QUOTING_STYLE can break dired, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/04/29
- bug#63142: 30.0.50; QUOTING_STYLE can break dired, Ruijie Yu, 2023/04/29
- bug#63142: 30.0.50; QUOTING_STYLE can break dired, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/04/29
bug#63142: 30.0.50; QUOTING_STYLE can break dired, Ruijie Yu, 2023/04/28