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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Aura Kelloniemi <kaura.dev@sange.fi>
Cc: 22477@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22477: 24.5; Dired does not work if file names contain newlines
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:18:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2mvrpku1x.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87si1ilszx.fsf@sange.fi> (Aura Kelloniemi's message of "Wed, 27 Jan 2016 21:30:58 +0200")

>>>>> Aura Kelloniemi <kaura.dev@sange.fi> writes:

> If Unix supports file names with control characters (which arguably is a
> questionable feature), then Dired (being the best file manager on the
> planet) should IMHO be able to deal with them, or at least document the
> incompatibility clearly.

Sounds like a reasonable request. If we don't have the feature yet, adding a
comment to the dired documentation on the use -b as a workaround would be
good.

-- 
John Wiegley                  GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
http://newartisans.com                          60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2





  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-29  2:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-27 12:21 bug#22477: 24.5; Dired does not work if file names contain newlines Aura Kelloniemi
2016-01-27 16:40 ` Glenn Morris
2016-01-27 19:30   ` Aura Kelloniemi
2016-01-29  2:18     ` John Wiegley [this message]
2016-02-16  6:46   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-16  9:01     ` Andreas Schwab
2016-02-16 16:47     ` Aura Kelloniemi

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