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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 10607@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10607: Handle all the escapes used by ls -b
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 18:41:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pn1zmrpc.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6o62fzm010.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:48:59 -0500")

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Emacs only partially handles (setq dired-listing-switches "-alb") at the
> moment. Ideally, should add handling for all possible file-name
> characters (eg \a = \a, etc). dired-goto-file needs this, possibly other
> places.

This problem is still present in Emacs 28.

Case to reproduce:

(progn
  (setq dired-listing-switches "-alb")
  (shell-command "touch /tmp/a\ab")
  (dired "/tmp/")
  (dired-goto-file "/tmp/a\ab"))

This will not go to the a^Gb file.

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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <6o62fzm010.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
2021-01-20 17:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2023-04-04 18:52 ` bug#10607: bug-10607 Charles El Hourani
2023-04-05  4:45   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-06 16:45     ` Charles El Hourani

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