dired-move-to-file-name-regexp and a dog's breakfast

[Matthew Swift <swift@alum.mit.edu>]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-11-06 on beth, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  i386-debian-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr/local --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/local/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/local/share/info --mandir=/usr/local/share/man --with-pop=yes --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=athena --without-gif'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Kibbles and Bits, Kibits and bits, Dired needs to know this suf-fix.

cd /usr/local/src/emacs/emacs/lisp/
diff -u /usr/local/src/emacs/emacs/lisp/dired.orig.el /usr/local/src/emacs/emacs/lisp/dired.el
--- /usr/local/src/emacs/emacs/lisp/dired.orig.el	2003-02-05 00:19:04.000000000 -0500
+++ /usr/local/src/emacs/emacs/lisp/dired.el	2003-02-05 00:37:43.000000000 -0500
@@ -1572,11 +1572,11 @@
 	 ;; The "[0-9]" below requires the previous column to end in a digit.
 	 ;; This avoids recognizing `1 may 1997' as a date in the line:
 	 ;; -r--r--r--   1 may      1997        1168 Oct 19 16:49 README
-	 ;; The "[kMGTPEZY]?" below supports "ls -alh" output.
+	 ;; The "[kKMGTPEZY]?" below supports "ls -alh" output.
 	 ;; The ".*" below finds the last match if there are multiple matches.
 	 ;; This avoids recognizing `jservice  10  1024' as a date in the line:
 	 ;; drwxr-xr-x  3 jservice  10  1024 Jul  2  1997 esg-host
-    (concat ".*[0-9][kMGTPEZY]?" s
+    (concat ".*[0-9][kKMGTPEZY]?" s
 	    "\\(" western "\\|" western-comma "\\|" japanese "\\|" iso "\\)"
 	    s "+"))
   "Regular expression to match up to the file name in a directory listing.

Diff finished at Wed Feb  5 00:39:29



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