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shell-quote-argument seems quoting backup files incorrectly


From: Jin Huang
Subject: shell-quote-argument seems quoting backup files incorrectly
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:36:33 +0800
User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090608)


Dear All,

I just set my emacs (GNU Emacs 23.0.91.1) to use the system (Ubuntu
9.04) trash.  It works fine for most of the file, however cannot move
backup files (with ~ in the end of the file name) into trash, even
cannot delete it.

I followed the instruction from
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SystemTrash.  Then I shrunk the code
for the minimal set to reproduce the problem:

========== Code A ==========
(setq delete-by-moving-to-trash t)
(defun system-move-file-to-trash (filename)
   (call-process "gvfs-trash" nil nil nil filename))

========== Code B ==========
(setq delete-by-moving-to-trash t)
(defun system-move-file-to-trash (filename)
   (call-process "gvfs-trash" nil nil nil (shell-quote-argument filename)))

Code A can move the backup file into trash correctly, however Code B
cannot.

One possible reason is that the backup suffix "~" mixes up with the
notation for home directory.

Is there any solution?

Best regards.

Jin Huang





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