From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf@gmail.com>, 46705@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46705: 27.1; Dired fails to move files with newlines inside their names.
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 17:21:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czwsf503.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83blccw16z.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 22 Feb 2021 17:51:16 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 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.
This question keeps coming up, but I see that it's not mentioned in the
Dired part of the manual? It could be mentioned, for instance, in the
bit about `dired-listing-switches'? And perhaps in the doc string of
that variable.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-22 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-22 13:36 bug#46705: 27.1; Dired fails to move files with newlines inside their names Vladimir Nikishkin
2021-02-22 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-22 16:11 ` Vladimir Nikishkin
2021-02-22 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-22 16:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-02-22 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-22 21:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-22 17:21 ` bug#46705: [External] : " Drew Adams
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