From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs 24 find-dired problems on Windows
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:13:43 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c190dc0c-390d-4ff3-8869-ffcd926d9e24@a8g2000pbe.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.295.1335760211.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Apr 29, 9:30 pm, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:23:43 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > there seems to be a problem of emacs 24's find-dired.
>
> > when using GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1, calling find-dired, i got one of this:
>
> > 2533274790481547 2 -rwx------ 1 h3 None 2994 Apr
> > 28 20:52 xx\ saga\ of\ bsof\ 2011-07-22.html
>
> > note the backslash there.
>
> > when i move the cursor to that line and press Enter, i get:
>
> > dired-get-file-for-visit: File no longer exists; type `g' to update
> > dired buffer
>
> My crystal ball says that you are using a Cygwin build of Find, which
> produces file names with spaces escaped in a style suitable for a
> Unixy shell, which the native Windows Emacs cannot grok (because
> backslashes are directory separators in native Windows file names).
>
> Solution: use a native Windows port of Find.
hi Eli,
your crystal ball is correct. :)
Xah
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-30 6:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-29 22:23 emacs 24 find-dired problems on Windows Xah Lee
2012-04-30 4:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.295.1335760211.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-30 6:13 ` Xah Lee [this message]
2012-04-30 14:59 ` Bug Dout
2012-04-30 15:26 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-04-30 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
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