bug#57350: 29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines

[Andreas Schwab]

On Aug 24 2022, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> 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.

With support for --dired, there is already everything needed to handle
newlines in file names.

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