bug#10458: 24.0.92; ! in dired on a file starting with a hyphen

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> The problem with that is that it's hackish and ad-hoc.  It will
> sometimes do the right thing, but other times it' not what's expected
> and users will find it odd.

Statistically speaking, it'll work on more cases than `!' used to,
though.  I'm pretty sure.  And I think it's fine for a command like `!'
to try to DWIM.

> An alternative is to pass absolute file names.  And I think it would
> make sense in that case to let the user choose between relative names
> and absolute names.

Giving absolute names would break more stuff than the DWIM tweak,
though, so we can't default to that.  And if we can't default to having
`!' work for files like this, there isn't much point.

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