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From: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Subject: Re: Dired doesn't understand localized file dates
Date: 04 Jun 2002 15:10:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1023217807.1358.935.camel@space-ghost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jkit4zok97.fsf@glug.org>

On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 22:22, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:

> the way to do this generally would be to create a temporary file (w/ known
> name, excluding spaces, and mtime), capture its ls(1) output, and figure out
> parse hints for use by dired (learn-by-example).  

The real solution is to reimplement ls in Lisp, and then change Dired to
use it. Then it will be completely reliable, something that a solution
based on regexps will, generally speaking, never be.

The first part has already been done (see ls-lisp.el).

  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-04 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-03 10:35 Dired doesn't understand localized file dates karl.eklund
2002-06-03 22:36 ` Richard Stallman
2002-06-04  2:22   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-04 19:10     ` Colin Walters [this message]
2002-06-04 11:26 ` Paul Stoeber
2002-06-04 12:13   ` Paul Stoeber
2002-06-04 13:12     ` Paul Stoeber
2002-06-05 14:01       ` Werner LEMBERG
2002-06-06 12:04   ` Richard Stallman
2002-06-06 12:37     ` Andreas Schwab

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