xemacs-base "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems." This patch eliminates one of the problems, and I hope it addresses the second as well. It seems to work in light standalone testing, but I haven't used it in place much yet. The original code often infloops if the original string contains a backslash on Unix (since many modes bind comint-file-name-quote-list to a list containing backslash). The code I propose assumes that what is passed to it is a raw string, in the sense that any backslashes are intended to be part of the name. I think that's what is intended. It's one-pass by definition, so can't infloop. ChangeLog addition: 2007-02-28 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * comint.el (comint-quote-filename): Fix infloop. xemacs-base source patch: Diff command: cvs -q diff -u Files affected: comint.el Index: comint.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/xemacs-base/comint.el,v retrieving revision 1.19 diff -u -u -r1.19 comint.el --- comint.el 31 Jul 2006 17:08:44 -0000 1.19 +++ comint.el 28 Feb 2007 04:13:44 -0000 ＠＠ -2811,13 +2811,10 ＠＠ Magic characters are those in `comint-file-name-quote-list'." (if (null comint-file-name-quote-list) filename - (let ((regexp - (format "\\(^\\|[^\\]\\)\\([%s]\\)" - (mapconcat 'char-to-string comint-file-name-quote-list "")))) - (save-match-data - (while (string-match regexp filename) - (setq filename (replace-match "\\1\\\\\\2" nil nil filename))) - filename)))) + (mapconcat (lambda (x) + (concat (if (memq x comint-file-name-quote-list) "\\" "") + (char-to-string x))) + filename))) (defun comint-unquote-filename (filename) "Return FILENAME with quoted characters unquoted." _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Patches mailing list XEmacs-Patches(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-patches