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From: Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: File without a name appears in a dired buffer
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 20:06:02 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <528e2b42-d590-4ee3-a8db-52bbd8b4dc39@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1106.1465354073.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 2:47:55 PM UTC+12, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Then I suggest to upgrade to at least Emacs 24.4.  Your problem is due
> to a file name which cannot be displayed using characters from the
> current system codepage, so it shows the 8+3 alias for such file
> names, and in your case the short alias appears to be empty.  Emacs
> 24.4 lifts that limitation, so you should see the full file name in
> that case.

Thanks for the tip.  I will do shortly.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-08  3:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-07  7:57 File without a name appears in a dired buffer Davin Pearson
2016-06-07 14:45 ` Barry Margolin
2016-06-07 15:16   ` Yuri Khan
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1064.1465312636.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-07 23:14     ` Davin Pearson
2016-06-08  9:17       ` Yuri Khan
2016-06-07 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.1059.1465311699.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-07 23:00   ` Davin Pearson
2016-06-08  2:48     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1106.1465354073.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-08  3:06       ` Davin Pearson [this message]

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