GNU bug report logs - #24926
ls-quotes: ls output has been made ugly

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From: "L. A. Walsh" <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 24926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Michael Schwager <mike <at> schwager.com>
Subject: bug#24926: ls output has been made ugly
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:29:39 -0800

Eric Blake wrote:
> He didn't have to. His point was merely that with the old ls, you can
> have inherently ambiguous situations.  Think of it as an exercise for
> the reader to figure out ways to get into those ambiguous situations.
----
	Good communication isn't supposed to be
a puzzle.  Creating puzzles in order for people to get your
message is, again, a way to "make points" and play games.

Sorry.  I was told to provide the means to reproduce my examples
when reporting a problem.  That wasn't done.  Poor example.
Justifying it as providing a puzzle for readers to solve is
just another game.

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