GNU bug report logs - #62096
30.0.50; find-dired, dired-goto-file and spaces

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Message #119 received at 62096 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 62096 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, drew.adams <at> oracle.com,
 manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr, mardani29 <at> yahoo.es
Subject: Re: bug#62096: 30.0.50; find-dired, dired-goto-file and spaces
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2023 13:32:01 +0200

> From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
> Cc: Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr>,  62096 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>   stephen.berman <at> gmx.net,  drew.adams <at> oracle.com,  mardani29 <at> yahoo.es
> Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2023 18:54:44 +0800
> 
> IICU filenames with embedded spaces and newlines are not supposed to
> work without GNU ls, which implements a `--dired' option just for Emacs.

That's not entirely accurate: ls-lisp.el also implements the
functionality for which --dired is required: it puts the special text
property on file names just like we do when we get --dired.  So the
related features also work on MS-Windows (and on any other platform if
ls-lisp.el is used).

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