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From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Harald Judt <h.judt@gmx.at>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dired cons bug?
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 08:55:40 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YvSZ3CgNYk1Ah60G@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cebed6c6-16b9-0ec6-a05d-a03337ee1c9e@gmx.at>

* Harald Judt <h.judt@gmx.at> [2022-08-11 08:05]:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question regarding using dired programmatically in Emacs 28.1. Say I
> do the following call to open a dired buffer and insert the files:
> 
> (dired "/home/"(cons "/home/admin" '("/home/user/tmp/test/a/a" "/home/user/tmp/test/b/b" "/home/user/tmp/test/c/c")))

Function is not intended to be use that way.

(dired DIRNAME &optional SWITCHES)

DIRNAME must be directory name. Not cons and some files inside.

-- 
Jean

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-11  5:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-10 11:26 dired cons bug? Harald Judt
2022-08-11  5:55 ` Jean Louis [this message]
2022-08-11  6:42   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-11  9:32     ` Jean Louis
2022-08-11  8:11   ` Harald Judt
2022-08-11  9:23 ` Harald Judt
2022-08-12  5:50   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-11 13:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-11 13:38 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-08-13 23:05 Harald Judt

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