From: Paul Eggert <eggert@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:28:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wekkw5xlf.fsf@sic.twinsun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <414E7485.3080103@math.ku.dk> (Lars Hansen's message of "Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:11:17 +0200")
Lars Hansen <larsh@math.ku.dk> writes:
> Yes, I now see it is documented with an example in a comment in
> dired-move-to-filename-regexp.
> But doesn't the ".*" make the "[0-9][kKMGTPEZY]?" superfluous?
No, because the "[0-9][kKMGTPEZY]?" forces the date to be preceded by
something that looks like a size. Without it, there would be more
false matches of dates within file names, e.g., the file name
"foo bar 1 2000 baz" would contain a "date" that looks like "bar 1 2000".
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-20 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-19 7:44 dired-move-to-filename-regexp Lars Hansen
2004-09-19 8:20 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Paul Eggert
2004-09-20 0:05 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-20 4:49 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Paul Eggert
2004-09-20 5:00 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Miles Bader
2004-09-21 18:30 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-22 6:09 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Paul Eggert
2004-09-23 16:45 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-23 17:57 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Stefan Monnier
2004-09-24 23:40 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-25 5:20 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Stefan
2004-09-25 15:36 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-25 19:08 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Stefan
2004-09-26 18:19 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-29 3:17 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Stefan
2004-09-23 18:27 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Paul Eggert
2004-09-24 23:40 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-23 23:27 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Miles Bader
2004-09-24 23:41 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-27 3:34 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Miles Bader
2004-09-24 5:51 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Jim Meyering
2004-09-25 7:08 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-21 18:30 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-23 18:59 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Lars Hansen
2004-09-24 23:40 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Richard Stallman
2004-09-20 6:11 ` dired-move-to-filename-regexp Lars Hansen
2004-09-20 23:28 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
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