GNU bug report logs - #13165
Fwd: Newlines in file names

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Whitfield Diffie <whitfield.diffie <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:55:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 24.1

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

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Whitfield Diffie <whitfield.diffie <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 13165 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13165: Fwd: Newlines in file names
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:29:15 -0500

>> I find it hard to see (null (file-exists-p (dired-get-filename)))
>> as anything but a bug; if ls didn't put the filenames in the right
>> form, dired should have done so.

I don't understand what you're saying here.  How could dired guess what
is the right form if ls doesn't provide it?  Tho, I guess that with
"ls --dired" the extra data returned by ls could arguably provide the
needed info.


        Stefan
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