I don't expect this to be hit in real-world use via normal
interactive shells.  However, somebody could accidentally add
"\n" in languages (e.g. Perl, C) where it's easy to pass "\n"
in argv[].
---
 lib/PublicInbox/LeiQuery.pm | 1 +
 t/lei.t                     | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiQuery.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiQuery.pm
index 352ee60131aa..51ee3d9c83e4 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiQuery.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiQuery.pm
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ no query allowed on command-line with --stdin
                PublicInbox::InputPipe::consume($self->{0}, \&qstr_add, $self);
                return;
        }
+       chomp(@argv) and $self->qerr("# trailing `\\n' removed");
        $mset_opt{q_raw} = [ @argv ]; # copy
        $mset_opt{qstr} =
                $self->{lse}->query_argv_to_string($self->{lse}->git, \@argv);
diff --git a/t/lei.t b/t/lei.t
index f7de1b711a83..b10c9b59c72b 100644
--- a/t/lei.t
+++ b/t/lei.t
@@ -143,6 +143,9 @@ my $test_fail = sub {
        lei('-C', '/dev/null', 'q', 'whatever');
        is($? >> 8, 1, 'chdir at beginning fails to /dev/null');
 
+       lei_ok('q', "foo\n");
+       like($lei_err, qr/trailing `\\n' removed/s, "noted `\\n' removal");
+
        for my $lk (qw(ei inbox)) {
                my $d = "$home/newline\n$lk";
                mkdir $d;
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