Hi,
The recent change to the default way that ls renders filenames with
spaces in (now surrounding them in single quotes) is also happening in
the presence of this switch:
-D, --dired generate output designed for Emacs' dired mode
and it's correspondingly breaking Emacs' dired mode in some
circumstances. Specifically, it's affecting me when I use dired in Emacs
to browse files on a remote machine through Emacs' 'Tramp' feature. The
spaced/quoted files and directories can't be opened or navigated into.
Test case:
- Start Emacs (I'm using the current stable version 24.5.1)
- Find file (C-x C-f) and enter "/ssh:localhost:" (since I'm using
localhost as an example, you'll need to have a local SSH server running)
- Notice that files or directories with spaces in the name are
surrounded in quotes, and can't be opened (by putting the cursor on them
and pressing return)
Whatever one thinks of the default change in general (I disapprove,
myself; I find the intermittently-appearing quotes disturbing the
alignment in an "ls -l" and disrupting my flow as a human reader),
perhaps it should be done in a way that does not disturb other use cases
that ls also explicitly claims to support.