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In article <SHENTON.93Jan26134727@troll.gsfc.nasa.gov> shenton@troll.gsfc.nasa.gov (Chris Shenton) writes:
>I'm editing files which frequently have space in their filename, and
>would like the find-file functions in -- for example -- dired to
>recognize the fullname, not just up to the first space.
>
>Anyone have ideas on how to do this?
>
>Thanks.
>--
>-- Chris Shenton    shenton@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov    NASA/GSFC/HSTX 301-286-7905


Well, I'm not saying it can't be done, but as far as I can see

        dired-find-file (dired.el) uses find-file (files.el)

find-file takes a filename as an arg and calls find-file-noselect,
which finds the file, reads it into a buffer and returns the buffer.

find-file-noselect sets the filename to (expand-file-name filename),
and I can't find any source for expand-file-name.  Describe-function
gives the following info on expand-file-name:

expand-file-name:
Convert FILENAME to absolute, and canonicalize it.
Second arg DEFAULT is directory to start with if FILENAME is relative
 (does not start with slash); if DEFAULT is nil or missing,
the current buffer's value of default-directory is used.
Filenames containing . or .. as components are simplified;
initial ~ is expanded.  See also the function
substitute-in-file-name.

From this explanation, it seems that expand-file-name takes the
filename which might include relative references and expands it to a
full path name.  This may involve disregarding spaces internal to the
filename arg passed to expand-file-name.  Of course, I'm no expert --
anyone out there with an expert's explanation of this problem?






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