From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: David Lambert <b49p23tivg@gmail.com>
Cc: 60195@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#60195: 27.1; dired failed to delete file with multi-line name
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 14:42:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mt7jefac.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62adbb76-74ab-7868-64a8-81bc3f051cc1@gmail.com> (message from David Lambert on Sun, 18 Dec 2022 23:42:56 -0500)
> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2022 23:42:56 -0500
> From: David Lambert <b49p23tivg@gmail.com>
>
> I had a file named
> ' 0 -1 -2 -3'$'\n'' -4 -5 -6 -7'$'\n'' -8 -9 -10 -11'$'\n\n''-12 -13 -14
> -15'$'\n''-16 -17 -18 -19'$'\n''-20 -21 -22 -23'$'\n'
>
> attempting to delete it with the usual d x yes instructions, emacs did
> not remove the file.
This is a known limitation. The workaround, per the Emacs manual and
the doc string of dired-listing-switches, is:
Dired does not handle files that have names with embedded newline
characters well. If you have many such files, you may consider adding
‘-b’ to ‘dired-listing-switches’. This will quote all special
characters and allow Dired to handle them better. (You can also use the
‘C-u C-x d’ command to add ‘-b’ temporarily.)
Unfortunately, we cannot add -b to the switches by default because it
is problematic with other nonprintable characters that Dired handles
well without -b.
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