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@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ Existing Plan9port/v9fs clients need a userspace bridge for QUIC.
```
/README this guide, also src/fs-help.txt
/index one line per pane: serial, kind (text|term|pdf|image), dirty flag, name, column serial
+ (the name as the log shows it: one line of UTF-8, a newline in it `\n`)
/status pid, version and pane count
/look write a line: a right click on it at the active pane; read: the serials the last
look, exec or ctl write touched (made, else acted at)
@@ -824,7 +825,9 @@ takes \`follow\` or \`follow new\``, `invalid write: this pane has no
text`), never a bare `Invalid argument`.
Control characters, DEL and C1 controls (U+0080-U+009F) in a record become
spaces, and a byte that is not UTF-8 is written `\xNN`, so a record is one
-line of UTF-8.
+line of UTF-8; a pane's name, in a record and in `/index` alike, shows a
+newline in it as `\n` rather than a space, so a directory named with one
+reads back as what it is.
(An `event` record is not: acme's `<origin><action><q0> <q1> <flag> <n>
<text>\n`, whose text may hold newlines. The origin is `E` (a 9P write to body or tag), `F` (other
files, the editor's own lines), `K` (the keyboard) or `M` (the mouse); the