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GNU Emacs 18.55.2 of Wed Jan  3 1990 on ptl (berkeley-unix)

I have created a file named `who, me?' by doing
	% touch who,\ me\?

Now I want to look at this file from dired.  So
	% emacs -q

and then
	C-x C-d

I see on the screen (along with other files in the directory):
	  -rw-r--r--   1 eric     engineer        0 Sep 12 09:34 who, me?

So far, so good.  I put the cursor on that line, and type `f', and I see
	-----Emacs: who,              Wed Sep 12 9:35am 1.00 [0]   (Fundamental)----All-
	(New file)

Harrumph, I say -- I wanted a file named `who, me?', not one named
`who,'.  For what it's worth, I can find the file with C-x C-f w TAB.

The "problem" seems to be in dired-get-filename.  There's some code
that looks for the end of the filename, and it looks like this
	(skip-chars-forward "^ \n")

This code clearly thinks that a space marks the end of the file name,
which of course is reasonable 99% of the time.  In my case, it didn't
work.

So if I get rid of the space in the string argument to
skip-chars-forward, dired does what I want.

I don't understand why that space is there anyway. Should it be?

I think it's a credit to the quality of software that the FSF makes,
that the only bugs I can find are persnickety little ones like this.
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