From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dired confused by filenames starting with date-like strings Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:17:07 +0900 Message-ID: <87sljnf670.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <1156356934.469929.210320@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156371473 5757 80.91.229.2 (23 Aug 2006 22:17:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:17:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 24 00:17:48 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GG12O-0002Mb-EE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:17:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GG12N-00012S-Q4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:17:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GG12A-00012N-Tx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:17:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GG128-00012B-7S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:17:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GG128-000128-0d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:17:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [203.216.5.72] (helo=smtp02.dentaku.gol.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GG1A2-0008G2-6q; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:25:22 -0400 Original-Received: from 203-216-105-174.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.105.174] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1GG124-0001H7-B3; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:17:08 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DD0FB2F48; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:17:07 +0900 (JST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <1156356934.469929.210320@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> (kg6mar@gmail.com's message of "23 Aug 2006 11:15:34 -0700") Original-Lines: 17 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36885 Archived-At: kg6mar@gmail.com writes: > 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. This works correctly on my system, because dired invokes ls with the "--dired" option (a feature of GNU ls, which causes ls to output extra information about where the names are located). The variable `dired-use-ls-dired' controls whether dired does this or not. So to fix this problem, try installing GNU ls (I guess that means cygwin, as you're on ms-windows?) and setting dired-use-ls-dired to t. -Miles -- The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. --Albert Einstein