From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 57350@debbugs.gnu.org, robert@capuchin.co.uk
Subject: bug#57350: 29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:58:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bks97vs9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1oQhSo-0007aN-Bo@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Tue, 23 Aug 2022 23:53:58 -0400)
> Cc: robert@capuchin.co.uk, 57350@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 23:53:58 -0400
>
> > If you have files with names with embedded newline characters, adding
> > `b' to the switches will allow Dired to handle those files better.
> > ---
>
> > But that has other side effects some people don't like, which is why we
> > haven't changed the defaults.
>
> What do people dislike about -b?
It causes much more than the newline to show up in somewhat awkward
formatting. Most of those other characters don't need to be
escaped/quoted for Emacs to DTRT, but 'ls' doesn't have any
finer-tuned feature.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-24 10:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-23 7:52 bug#57350: 29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines Robert Marshall
2022-08-23 10:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-24 3:53 ` Richard Stallman
2022-08-24 6:38 ` Michael Albinus
2022-08-24 10:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-26 3:37 ` Richard Stallman
2022-08-26 6:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-31 2:38 ` Richard Stallman
2022-08-31 10:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-31 11:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-08-31 12:32 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-24 10:58 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-08-24 12:22 ` Andreas Schwab
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