Re: directory names ending with a colon confuse dired

[Chris Moore]

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 00:17 +0200, Chris Moore wrote:
> If I use 'dired' on a directory which has a subdirectory with a name
> ending with a colon, and do a recursive directory listing in there, I
> can't visit any files under subdirectories.

It seems the problem is related to the value of dired-subdir-alist.

With the directory called 'colon:', I see:

Its value is 
(("/tmp/dir/" . #<marker at 1 in dir>))

If I rename 'colon:' to 'colon', then its value changes to this correct
value:

(("/tmp/dir/subdir/" . #<marker at 366 in dir>)
 ("/tmp/dir/colon/" . #<marker at 238 in dir>)
 ("/tmp/dir/" . #<marker at 1 in dir>))