Re: find-name-dired should not escape the braces in windows environment

[Kevin Rodgers]

Lalit Mohan Tripathi wrote:
>   ~/Desktop/emacs-21.3/bin/:
>   find . \( -name '*.c' \) -exec ls -ld {} \;
>   find: paths must precede expression
>   Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression]
>
>   find exited abnormally with code 1 at Fri Oct 07 08:57:32
>
>   Please let me know how to fix it at lalit.mohan@samsung.com,
>   currently I use batch file in Windows to type the above command
>   by replacing \( with ( and then run-it, as an
>   alternate way to perform this.
>
> Recent input:
>    Used  M-x find-name-dired

Set shell-file-name to a shell that understands quoted parentheses.

Note: In American English, "(" and ")" are parentheses, "[" and "]" are
brackets, and "{" and "}" are braces.

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Kevin Rodgers