GNU bug report logs - #43789
27.1; Dired cannot handle file which name contains linebreak

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Message #41 received at 43789 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 43789 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, all_but_last <at> 163.com
Subject: Re: bug#43789: 27.1;
 Dired cannot handle file which name contains linebreak
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:51:00 +0300

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
> Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 11:30:50 +0200
> Cc: 43789 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> "Zhu Zihao" <all_but_last <at> 163.com> writes:
> 
> > Step to reproduce:
> >
> > 1. Use touch from coreutils or find-file in Emacs to create a file
> > which name contains a linebreak. (e.g. "line\nbreak")
> > 2. Visit it in dired, you cannot do anything with this file because
> > the characters after "\n" was ignored by dired.
> 
> I recommend to avoid file names containing line breaks. Tramp, for
> example, cannot handle them at all.

Cannot agree more.  And I think we shouldn't tweak our implementation
too much for such use cases, given that there's an easy workaround.

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