From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dired cons bug? Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 08:55:40 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25731"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ () (2022-06-11) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Harald Judt Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 11 08:01:10 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oM1Fm-0006XR-0n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2022 08:01:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40674 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oM1Fk-0007NI-W0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2022 02:01:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57210) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oM1Al-0007KS-MQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2022 01:56:06 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:39487) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oM1Ah-0003pB-Na for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2022 01:55:59 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.4.231]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000B5AF3.0000000062F499E8.00004021; Wed, 10 Aug 2022 22:55:52 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Harald Judt , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -17 X-Spam_score: -1.8 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SBL=0.141, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:138794 Archived-At: * Harald Judt [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 Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/