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27.1; Dired cannot handle file which name contains linebreak

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From: "Zhu Zihao" <all_but_last <at> 163.com>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 43789 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Subject: Re:Re: bug#43789: 27.1; Dired cannot handle file which name
 contains linebreak
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 00:11:35 +0800 (CST)

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I think I get an acceptable solution. thank you  all!


We may close this issue now.






At 2020-10-05 17:51:00, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>> 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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