* dired-move-to-filename-regexp and iso dates in filenames
@ 2003-01-30 7:46 Jens Petersen
2003-01-30 8:26 ` Miles Bader
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From: Jens Petersen @ 2003-01-30 7:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Paul Eggert
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
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* Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp and iso dates in filenames
2003-01-30 7:46 dired-move-to-filename-regexp and iso dates in filenames Jens Petersen
@ 2003-01-30 8:26 ` Miles Bader
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From: Miles Bader @ 2003-01-30 8:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
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
--
`The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement'
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