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

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:59:39 +0200

Richard Stallman <[email-masked]> writes:

Hi Richard,

>   > 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.

But that's already possible. The user might set temporarily

(setq dired-actual-switches "-alb")

Best regards, Michael.