Shouldn't "seeing" characters be independent of working with files? I don't mind seeing newlines as line breaks, that's what they are, after all. Thunar shows them as line breaks. But shouldn't moving files work regardless? I'm using the coreutils version of ls, a fairly standard one. -- Yours sincerely, Vladimir Nikishkin (Sent with Google mail mobile.) Eli Zaretskii 于 2021年2月22日周一 23:51写道: > > From: Vladimir Nikishkin > > Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 21:36:12 +0800 > > > > 1. "echo foo; echo bar| xargs -0 touch" -- should create a file called > > foo\nbar > > 2. Try to use R in dired on this file, to move elsewhere. > > 3. Observe dired fail. > > You need to add -b to the Dired switches (i.e. "C-u C-x d" and type > "-alb") to be able to see special characters correctly, I think. >