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From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: File without a name appears in a dired buffer
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 21:16:51 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8V8nqLFEcPXkZ2FhdvHYksHS-BAF0kKnuF53R6st1Fnwg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <barmar-EB1232.10451307062016@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> It's a directory, not a file. And the name is probably some number of
> spaces.

That’s unlikely, seeing as the path includes a drive letter. Windows
does not easily allow space-only names.

>>   c:/Downloads/ABBA Discography [24 96]:
>>   total used in directory 1 available 57327936
>>   drwxrwxrwx  1 Administrators Administrators   0 05-19 06:52      <--- here
>>   drwxrwxrwx  1 Administrators Administrators   0 05-19 06:52 .


@Davin: What does “dir” in plain old CMD say about this directory? If
you use Cygwin or MSYS, what does their “ls -al” say?



  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-07 15:16 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 [this message]
     [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

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