Ixnay Amenay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The output of the 'dirs' builtin does not escape space >characters: > >bash> dirs >~/program files ~/src/emacs >bash> > >This breaks the M-x dirs function of both cygwin emacs >and NT emacs. > >I believe this to be a bash bug: There is no way for >emacs (or anything else) to parse the output of dirs >and disambiguate "space used as delimiter" vs. "space >in the directory name". bash is working as advertised. In any case, unless this is a cygwin-specific behaviour, it's offtopic. "M-x dirs" is not a standard emacs function. I suggest you recode it to use "dirs -p". That should be easy enough to parse.
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