Subject: Re: bug#43789: 27.1; Dired cannot handle file which name contains linebreak

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 22:30:45 -0400

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  > I recommend to avoid file names containing line breaks.

I agree -- but what if you have one, perhaps made by mistake?
The natural way for an Emacs user to rename or delete it
is with Dired.  It would be nice for Dired to handle it
at least enough to do that.

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