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).
next prev parent 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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