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RE: Newlines in file names
From: |
Doug Lewan |
Subject: |
RE: Newlines in file names |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:34:34 +0000 |
> -----Original Message-----
> From: whitfielddiffie@gmail.com [mailto:whitfielddiffie@gmail.com] On
> Behalf Of Whitfield Diffie
> Sent: Tuesday, 2012 December 11 10:19
> To: Doug Lewan
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Newlines in file names
>
> > What version of emacs are you using?
>
> 22.1.2. I apologize for not including that; it hit me that I
> hadn't just after I had sent the message.
>
> > I don't have such problems in version 24, but I do remember dired
> using a regular expression that wouldn't match such uncommon names in
> earlier versions.
>
> I think you mean a string used in a dired-string-replace-match in
> dired-get-filename to remove quotes that come in from ls. That filter
> solves some bad filenames bit I didn't succeed in diddling it to solve
> the newline problem.
That's probably what I meant.
I remember having problems exactly with filenames that ended with newline. I
also remember dealing with them by hand every time. Enough to annoy. Infrequent
enough not to program against. Yuck.
>
>
> Whit
,Douglas
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