Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r107640: (dired-listing-switches): "ls -b" breaks dired - document this

Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r107640: (dired-listing-switches): "ls -b" breaks dired - document this

[Glenn Morris]

Sam Steingold wrote:

> ------------------------------------------------------------
> revno: 107640
> committer: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
> branch nick: trunk
> timestamp: Wed 2012-03-21 12:07:04 -0400
> message:
>   (dired-listing-switches): "ls -b" breaks dired - document this

How does it break dired?

I believe it works for most "normal" file names.

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10469
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10596

Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r107640: (dired-listing-switches): "ls -b" breaks dired - document this

[Sam Steingold]

> * Glenn Morris <etz@tah.bet> [2012-03-21 12:25:27 -0400]:
>
> Sam Steingold wrote:
>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> revno: 107640
>> committer: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
>> branch nick: trunk
>> timestamp: Wed 2012-03-21 12:07:04 -0400
>> message:
>>   (dired-listing-switches): "ls -b" breaks dired - document this
>
> How does it break dired?
>
> I believe it works for most "normal" file names.
>
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10469
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10596

This change was lying around for quite some time; apparently, since
before these bugs were fixed. I just committed it today in a cleanup.
I guess I misunderstood the maintainers' intention: I thought that "-b"
was not supposed to be supported and was in the docs by mistake.
I will revert the change. Sorry.

Indeed, it appears that the space in a file name is now handled both
with and without "-b"; before I saw 
(error "File no longer exists; type `g' to update dired buffer")
on access with "-b".

Now I see the above error __WITHOUT__ "-b" for files with newline in
names. __WITH__ "-b" dired can handle files with newlines in names.


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