From: kg6mar@gmail.com
Subject: Dired confused by filenames starting with date-like strings
Date: 23 Aug 2006 11:15:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1156356934.469929.210320@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> (raw)
Dired gets confused by certain filenames in which the beginning
resembles a date and there is an embedded space (my photograph naming
convention). It fails to assemble the entire filename.
Example:
-rw-rw-rw- 1 John root 1113559 Oct 12 2005 04 Project - Front
caulking.JPG
-r--r--r-- 1 John root 1924322 Sep 5 2005 2005-09-05 002.JPG
Dired correctly interprets the first filename as "04 Project - Front
caulking.JPG" but incorrectly thinks that the second file is named
"002.JPG" instead of "2005-09-05 002.JPG"
The behavior manifests itself in operations like Copy and Rename.
I googled my way to looking at dired-move-to-filename-regexp, but its
value is very complex relative to my regexp skill, and anything I do to
it will likely have unintended consequences. (Adding the -b flag to
dired-listing-switches did nothing.)
I'm going to dig into it the best I can, but I also want to put it out
here and see if someone else has been here before.
Emacs-version's value is "21.3.1" Operating system is Windows XP.
I'd rather not rename all my photographs (well, actually, I do, and
that's how I discovered this).
Thanks, and hail Emacs
-- John
next reply other threads:[~2006-08-23 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-23 18:15 kg6mar [this message]
2006-08-23 22:17 ` Dired confused by filenames starting with date-like strings Miles Bader
2006-08-24 11:56 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-08-24 14:27 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.5544.1156420601.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-08-24 14:35 ` Miles Bader
2006-08-24 15:05 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-08-24 16:12 ` Dired doesn't decode UTF-8 file names (was: Dired confused by filenames starting with date-like strings) Kevin Rodgers
2006-08-24 19:48 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-08-28 15:02 ` Dired doesn't decode UTF-8 file names Kevin Rodgers
2006-08-28 15:44 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-08-28 20:52 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-08-28 21:29 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.5855.1156800592.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-08-28 21:36 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <mailman.5520.1156371436.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-08-24 17:43 ` Dired confused by filenames starting with date-like strings kg6mar
2006-08-24 23:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-25 0:41 ` Miles Bader
[not found] ` <mailman.5588.1156462534.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-08-25 23:28 ` B. T. Raven
2006-08-26 12:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.5676.1156594178.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-08-27 0:58 ` B. T. Raven
2006-08-27 1:41 ` Miles Bader
[not found] ` <mailman.5698.1156642923.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-09-07 3:08 ` kg6mar
2006-09-07 13:44 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-02 17:59 ` John Olson
2006-08-24 21:48 ` Jesse Alama
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