bug#16984: dired-do-rename susceptible to .../~/... hijack

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severity 16984 minor
tags 16984 patch
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
>> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 22:21:20 -0400
>> Cc: 16984@debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> The essential problem seems to be that there is no way to escape
>> filenames from substitute-in-file-name to protect a file named "~",
>> therefore read-file-name-default can never return a filename in a
>> directory with that name.
>
> What about the "/:" quoting?  It works for me, when I type "/:" before
> the name of the file which has a '~' character embedded in it.

Ah, yes it works, as documented in `(emacs) Quoted File Names'.  I think
it would be nicer if Emacs' file prompts defaulted to insert this as
needed, here's a patch to do that:

v1-0001-Quote-filenames-containing-in-prompts.patch
Description: patch