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bug#43789: 27.1; Dired cannot handle file which name contains linebreak
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#43789: 27.1; Dired cannot handle file which name contains linebreak |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Oct 2020 09:53:15 -0700 (PDT) |
> > 1. Use touch from coreutils or find-file in Emacs to create a file
> > which name contains a linebreak. (e.g. "line\nbreak")
> > 2. Visit it in dired, you cannot do anything with this file because
> > the characters after "\n" was ignored by dired.
>
> I recommend to avoid file names containing line breaks. Tramp, for
> example, cannot handle them at all.
And it's likely to mess up font-locking and other
Dired features that expect a newline to indicate
the end of a Dired line.
Dired, and other line-oriented displays, are a bit
fragile in this respect.
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bug#43789: 27.1; Dired cannot handle file which name contains linebreak,
Drew Adams <=
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