From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5551: 23.1.92; Dired shows wrongly whole directory contents Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:27:27 -0500 Message-ID: <87pr4dqw3k.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87pr4epomb.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265795594 10073 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2010 09:53:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:53:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 5551@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 10 10:53:12 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nf9Fv-00050z-K0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:53:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36300 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nf9Fv-0004K3-30 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:53:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nf9FE-00046V-O9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:52:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42924 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nf9FE-00046I-4d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:52:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nf9FB-00073m-FO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:52:26 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:42613) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nf9FA-00073Z-V9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:52:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nf8ra-0002nY-If; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:28:02 -0500 X-Loop: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-From: Chong Yidong Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:28:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 5551 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 5551-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B5551.126579406010736 (code B ref 5551); Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:28:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 5551) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Feb 2010 09:27:40 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nf8rE-0002n7-CF for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:27:40 -0500 Original-Received: from pantheon-po25.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.119]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nf8r9-0002mx-Gd for 5551@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:27:38 -0500 Original-Received: from furry (bb116-15-9-83.singnet.com.sg [116.15.9.83]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po25.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o1A9RUDb023596 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:27:32 -0500 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B9475C05D; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:27:27 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87pr4epomb.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:42:04 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:28:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:35013 Archived-At: Michael Albinus writes: > According to the doc, dired shall show single file entries when called > with a list of file names. If a file name is a directory, this works OK > with remote directory names. But with local directory names, it shows > the whole directory contents, which is wrong. The doc seems ambiguous to me, and it is not clear to me what is the better behavior. Do you have an argument for why displaying just the directory name is better? But the present behavior has been around since at least Emacs 22, so I don't think we should make this change right now in any case.