dired-move-to-filename-regexp and iso dates in filenames

dired-move-to-filename-regexp and iso dates in filenames

[Jens Petersen]

Hello,

Dired has trouble dealing with filenames containing iso
dates and whitespace.  Not sure how easy it is fix in
`dired-move-to-filename-regexp' without breaking other more
common cases though.  It seems to me that it is crying out
for proper parsing of directory listings, but anyway...

Any comments?  I was informed of this bug by the bug report
<http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83068>.

Jens

Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp and iso dates in filenames

[Miles Bader]

Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> writes:
> Dired has trouble dealing with filenames containing iso
> dates and whitespace.  Not sure how easy it is fix in
> `dired-move-to-filename-regexp' without breaking other more
> common cases though.  It seems to me that it is crying out
> for proper parsing of directory listings, but anyway...
> 
> Any comments?  I was informed of this bug by the bug report
> <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83068>.

The best thing to do is to (1) make sure you're using GNU ls, and (2) set
`dired-use-ls-dired' to non-nil (this will be done automatically if
(string-match "gnu" system-configuration) is true, which is the case on
debian systems at least).

This will make dired use `ls --dired' which completely avoids all the
problems with parsing ls output (because ls includes info about where the
filenames are in its output).

-Miles
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