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29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines

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Message #42 received at 57350 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: robert <at> capuchin.co.uk, larsi <at> gnus.org, 57350 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57350: 29.0.50; dired and filenames containing newlines
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 13:06:20 +0200

On Aug 31 2022, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Could be done, but that would also need a lot of coding, just
> elsewhere: all the features and commands which work on Dired buffers
> would need to perform the inverse conversion before actually using the
> file names.  I'm not sure which of the jobs is smaller, but it doesn't
> look like any of them is small.

Should be centralized to dired-get-filename, though.

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