On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 5:53 AM, Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> wrote: > I noticed in the info docs that ls may change to "shell" quoting by default. > > "You can specify the default value of the ‘--quoting-style’ option > with the environment variable ‘QUOTING_STYLE’. If that environment > variable is not set, the default value is ‘literal’, but this > default may change to ‘shell’ in a future version of this package." > > Given the new support for "shell-escape" quoting which provides > both a concise and unambiguous output, should we now consider > enabling that by default? > > $ touch '1 2' 3 $'4\r' > $ ls-old > 1 2 3 4? > $ ls-new > '1 2' 3 '4'$'\r'
Yes, please. Those question marks struck me as anachronistic 10 years ago.
