GNU bug report logs - #44467
28.0.50; Dired flagging next file for deleteiion, if on file name with new line

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>

Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 14:02:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 44467 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
Cc: 44467 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44467: 28.0.50;
 Dired flagging next file for deleteiion, if on file name with new line
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 16:26:35 +0200

> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 17:00:21 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
> 
> 
> Today I have noticed that files with new file names cannot be flagged
> for deletion from their second line (after the new line), in fact
> Dired would flag wrongly the next file or directory for deletion.

You mean, files whose names include a newline? to have them handled
in Dired, you need to add -b to the ls switches.  (NO, we don't want
to do that by default.)
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