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27.1; Dired cannot handle file which name contains linebreak

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 43789 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>, all_but_last <at> 163.com
Subject: bug#43789: 27.1; Dired cannot handle file which name contains linebreak
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 10:26:29 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> One downside is that -b isn't POSIX.
>
> Right.

I thought I remembered seeing some code in dired to probe for whether a
switch was supported or not...  did I just dream that?

> I'm also not sure everyone would like to see \002 instead of ^B.

Both control characters and newlines are pretty rare occurrences in file
names, but I'd take \002 for ^B over a Dired that doesn't work with \n.
Functionality over prettiness, or something. 

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