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Encouragement to go back to *dis*abled quotation marks in ls output as *default* behavior

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Message #11 received at 53025 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Joerg M. Sigle" <joerg.sigle <at> jsigle.com>
Cc: 53025 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#53025: Encouragement to go back to *dis*abled quotation marks
 in ls output as *default* behavior
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 12:46:56 -0800

On 1/5/22 00:44, Joerg M. Sigle wrote:
> "When this many people consider a thing a bug, then it's a bug whether maintainers disagree or not."

By that standard it'll be a bug no matter what the maintainers do, since 
feelings are strong on both sides of the issue. So by this reasoning, 
maintainers might as well do nothing.

In the meantime you can avoid the issue yourself by using this:

alias ls="ls -N"

in your .profile or whatever.

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