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30.0.50; find-dired, dired-goto-file and spaces

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 62096 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, drew.adams <at> oracle.com, Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>, mardani29 <at> yahoo.es
Subject: bug#62096: 30.0.50; find-dired, dired-goto-file and spaces
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2023 18:54:44 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Cc: 62096 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
>> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 15:02:44 +0100
>> From:  Manuel Giraud via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>> 
>> This patch was produce on the main branch but FWIW I think it should
>> also go on emacs-29.
>
> I'm okay with installing this on emacs-29, since macOS is supposed to
> be a variant of BSD.
>
> But please don't change the values for any other systems, not on the
> release branch anyway.
>
> Thanks.

IICU filenames with embedded spaces and newlines are not supposed to
work without GNU ls, which implements a `--dired' option just for Emacs.
Admittedly that isn't the best situation, but it is not a regression
from Emacs 28.

Would someone please explain what the problem here is?

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