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bug#57350: 29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
bug#57350: 29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Aug 2022 22:38:34 -0400 |
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> A lot of coding. The --dired option tells Emacs where the file name
> begins and ends, but it does nothing to remove the literal newline
> character in the Dired buffer that breaks the file name entry into two
> (or more) lines. So all the Dired commands that move by lines and
> assume a file's entry takes only one line on display become broken and
> have to be rewritten almost from scratch.
It seems to me that the newlines in the file names should not be
represented in the Direc buffer as newlines. Perhaps as \n? And
backslashes as \\?
dired-readin could search the filenames for newlines and backslashes
and change the representation of them.
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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
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- bug#57350: 29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines, Robert Marshall, 2022/08/23
- bug#57350: 29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/08/23
- bug#57350: 29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines, Richard Stallman, 2022/08/23
- bug#57350: 29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines, Michael Albinus, 2022/08/24
- bug#57350: 29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/08/24
- bug#57350: 29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines, Richard Stallman, 2022/08/25
- bug#57350: 29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/08/26
- bug#57350: 29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines,
Richard Stallman <=
- bug#57350: 29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/08/31
- bug#57350: 29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines, Andreas Schwab, 2022/08/31
- bug#57350: 29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines, Gregory Heytings, 2022/08/31
- bug#57350: 29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/08/24
- bug#57350: 29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines, Andreas Schwab, 2022/08/24