Hi! I don't think + should be quoted in file names. With this patch I can run ! runs the command dired-do-shell-command on filenames like 20070819T101640+0200.wav I am trying to use timestamps including timezone offset as names for files that are best qualified by time of creation (e.g. pictures, audio recordings, etc.). With the quoting I get: --------------------------- Sound Recorder --------------------------- Cannot open 'c:\Documents and Settings\aichnerad\My Documents\Xda_orbit My Documents\20070819T101640\+0200.wav'. --------------------------- OK --------------------------- Adrian How about this: diff -u c:\Program Files\XEmacs\xemacs-packages\lisp\dired\dired-shell.el.~1~ c:\Program Files\XEmacs\xemacs-packages\lisp\dired\dired-shell.el --- c:\Program Files\XEmacs\xemacs-packages\lisp\dired\dired-shell.el.~1~ 2007-08-21 01:11:14.703000000 +0200 +++ c:\Program Files\XEmacs\xemacs-packages\lisp\dired\dired-shell.el 2007-08-21 01:11:14.718625000 +0200 ＠＠ -197,7 +197,7 ＠＠ ;; Quote everything except POSIX filename characters. ;; This should be safe enough even for really weird shells. (let ((result "") (start 0) end) - (while (string-match "[^---0-9a-zA-Z_./]" filename start) + (while (string-match "[^---0-9a-zA-Z_.+/]" filename start) (setq end (match-beginning 0) result (concat result (substring filename start end) "\\" (substring filename end (1+ end))) Emacs: XEmacs 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" (+CVS-20070818) [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32, Mule) of Sun Aug 19 2007 on TANG Package: Dired current state: ============== (setq dired-version "7.13" dired-auto-shell-command-alist '(("\\.\\(dll\\|ocx\\)$" "regsvr32 \"*\"") ("\\.xl[st]$" "excel") ("\\.do[ct]$" "winword") ("\\.ppt$" "powerpnt \"*\"") ("." (if (file-directory-p (file-name-as-directory (car files))) "explorer" "notepad") ) ("." (apa-dired-auto-shell-command-clearcase)) ) dired-backup-if-overwrite nil dired-chown-program "/etc/chown" dired-cleanup-alist '(("tex" ".toc" ".log" ".aux" ".dvi") ("latex" ".toc" ".log" ".aux" ".idx" ".lof" ".lot" ".glo" ".dvi") ("bibtex" ".blg" ".bbl") ("texinfo" ".cp" ".cps" ".fn" ".fns" ".ky" ".kys" ".pg" ".pgs" ".tp" ".tps" ".vr" ".vrs") ("patch" ".rej" ".orig") ("backups" "~") ("completion-ignored-extensions" ".svn/" "CM/" "CVS/" ".o" ".obj" ".elc" "~" ".bin" ".lbin" ".dvi" ".class") ) dired-compression-method 'gzip dired-compression-method-alist '((gzip ".gz" ("gzip" "-9") ("gzip" "-d") "-f") (compress ".Z" ("compress" "-f") ("compress" "-d") "-f") (pack ".z" ("pack" "-f") ("unpack"))) dired-copy-preserve-time t dired-dwim-target nil dired-failed-marker-shell ?! dired-filename-re-ext "\\..+\\'" dired-find-subdir nil dired-gnutar-program "tar" dired-keep-marker-compress t dired-keep-marker-copy ?C dired-keep-marker-hardlink ?H dired-keep-marker-kill ?K dired-keep-marker-rename t dired-keep-marker-symlink ?S dired-keep-marker-uucode ?U dired-kept-versions 2 dired-listing-switches "-al" dired-local-variables-file ".dired" dired-ls-F-marks-symlinks nil dired-ls-program "ls" dired-mail-reader 'vm dired-mode-line-modified "-%s%s%s-" dired-no-confirm nil dired-omit-extensions '(".class" ".lbin" ".bin" ".elc" ".obj" ".o" "CVS/" "CM/" ".svn/" "~" ".orig" ".rej" ".vrs" ".vr" ".tps" ".tp" ".pgs" ".pg" ".kys" ".ky" ".fns" ".fn" ".cps" ".cp" ".bbl" ".blg" ".glo" ".lot" ".lof" ".idx" ".dvi" ".aux" ".log" ".toc") dired-omit-files nil dired-omit-regexps '("\\`#" "\\`\\.") dired-refresh-automatically t dired-shell-failure-marker ?! dired-show-ls-switches nil dired-trivial-filenames "\\`\\.\\.?\\'\\|\\`#" dired-unshar-program nil dired-use-file-transformers t dired-verify-modtimes t reporter-version "Your version of reporter is obsolete. Please upgrade." ) -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/ _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta