RE: Newlines in file names

[Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: whitfielddiffie@gmail.com [mailto:whitfielddiffie@gmail.com] On
> Behalf Of Whitfield Diffie
> Sent: Tuesday, 2012 December 11 10:19
> To: Doug Lewan
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Newlines in file names
> 
> > What version of emacs are you using?
> 
>     22.1.2.  I apologize for not including that; it hit me that I
> hadn't just after I had sent the message.
> 
> > I don't have such problems in version 24, but I do remember dired
> using a regular expression that wouldn't match such uncommon names in
> earlier versions.
> 
>     I think you mean a string used in a dired-string-replace-match in
> dired-get-filename to remove quotes that come in from ls.  That filter
> solves some bad filenames bit I didn't succeed in diddling it to solve
> the newline problem.

That's probably what I meant.

I remember having problems exactly with filenames that ended with newline. I also remember dealing with them by hand every time. Enough to annoy. Infrequent enough not to program against. Yuck.

> 
> 
>                                                      Whit

,Douglas
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