GNU bug report logs - #10469
24.0.92; find-name-dired quotes characters in output

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de

Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 21:24:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 10817

Found in versions 24.0.91, 24.0.92

Fixed in version 24.0.93

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #31 received at 10469 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de
Cc: 10469 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10469: 24.0.92; find-name-dired quotes characters in output
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:28:21 -0500

Michael Heerdegen wrote:

> I.e., set dired-listing-switches to "-abl".  Create a directory "a
> b" somewhere.  It gets shown as "a\nb" as expected.  But if I try to
> visit it from dired, I get this error:

I think this works too now. But Dired obviously has not been designed
with files with newlines in the name in mind, so I would not be
surprised if there are still many places where it gets it wrong.
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