From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: File without a name appears in a dired buffer Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 05:48:24 +0300 Message-ID: <83wpm0qttz.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1465354106 14458 80.91.229.3 (8 Jun 2016 02:48:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 02:48:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 08 04:48:19 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bATXV-00074J-9Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2016 04:48:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54170 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bATXU-00049f-KW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 22:48:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bATX5-00048c-7l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 22:47:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bATX0-0003kn-Vj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 22:47:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34136) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bATX0-0003kZ-Ss for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 22:47:46 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4954 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bATX0-0004oe-4A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 22:47:46 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Davin Pearson on Tue, 7 Jun 2016 16:00:40 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110368 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 16:00:40 -0700 (PDT) > From: Davin Pearson > > > > c:/Downloads/ABBA Discography [24 96]: > > > total used in directory 1 available 57327936 > > > drwxrwxrwx 1 Administrators Administrators 0 05-19 06:52 <--- here > > > > What version of Emacs is that? > > 23.1.1 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.