Subject: bug#57350: 29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:58:30 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 23:53:58 -0400
> 
>   > If you have files with names with embedded newline characters, adding
>   > `b' to the switches will allow Dired to handle those files better.
>   > ---
> 
>   > But that has other side effects some people don't like, which is why we
>   > haven't changed the defaults.
> 
> What do people dislike about -b?

It causes much more than the newline to show up in somewhat awkward
formatting.  Most of those other characters don't need to be
escaped/quoted for Emacs to DTRT, but 'ls' doesn't have any
finer-tuned feature.