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wdired doesn't work on files with backslash in their names


From: Chris Moore
Subject: wdired doesn't work on files with backslash in their names
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 04:42:23 +0100

I made a file with a backslash in its name and then tried to rename it
using wdired.  The backslash appeared doubled in the dired buffer.

On renaming, it complains:

  Rename `/tmp/^G' to `/tmp/\aa' failed:
  (file-error Renaming no such file or directory /tmp/^G /tmp/\aa)

Looks like the \a is being interpreted as a control-G?

To repeat:

In a shell:

  touch '\a'

Then in a dired buffer viewing that file's directory:

  M-x wdired-change-to-wdired-mode RET
  <edit the \\a to something else>
  C-c C-c

Chris.




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