emacs 24 find-dired problems on Windows

emacs 24 find-dired problems on Windows

[Xah Lee]

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

update doesn't help. Somehow, filenames with spaces causes the
problem.

The problem also happens when calling dired-do-query-replace-regexp
【Q】, it'll stop dead reporting file doesn't exist.

What could possibly be the problem?

GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2012-04-23 on MARVIN

(if starting emacs with -Q, then another problem occur. It calls
Microsoft cmd.exe's find. (thanks to Yuri Khan .)

 Xah

Re: emacs 24 find-dired problems on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Xah Lee <xahlee@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.

Re: emacs 24 find-dired problems on Windows

[Xah Lee]

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

Re: emacs 24 find-dired problems on Windows

[Bug Dout]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Solution: use a native Windows port of Find.

Where might one be found?
-- 
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
 ~ Benito Mussolini

Re: emacs 24 find-dired problems on Windows

[Óscar Fuentes]

Bug Dout <buggsy2@mailinator.com> writes:

>> Solution: use a native Windows port of Find.
>
> Where might one be found?

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/

Re: emacs 24 find-dired problems on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:26:38 +0200
> Cc: Bug Dout <buggsy2@mailinator.com>
> 
> Bug Dout <buggsy2@mailinator.com> writes:
> 
> >> Solution: use a native Windows port of Find.
> >
> > Where might one be found?
> 
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/

I'd suggest this one instead:

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/findutils-4.2.30-2-w32-bin.zip/download

The GnuWin32 port of Findutils is abysmally slow, and also buggy
(e.g., 'locate' doesn't work at all).