From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Davin Pearson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: File without a name appears in a dired buffer Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 20:06:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <528e2b42-d590-4ee3-a8db-52bbd8b4dc39@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1465355453 32124 80.91.229.3 (8 Jun 2016 03:10:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 03:10:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 08 05:10:52 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bATt1-0000Pj-16 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2016 05:10:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54220 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bATsz-0008Ip-TV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 23:10:29 -0400 X-Received: by 10.157.7.82 with SMTP id 76mr10315256ote.21.1465355162932; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 20:06:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.36.205 with SMTP id f196mr208092ita.2.1465355162785; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 20:06:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!q32no5052542qgq.0!news-out.google.com!107ni202qgx.1!nntp.google.com!p34no4032757qgp.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=202.124.123.170; posting-account=SVVH0AoAAABplEQzMkIR3gU7a0gK8IuF Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.124.123.170 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 03:06:02 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218060 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110369 Archived-At: On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 2:47:55 PM UTC+12, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Then I suggest to upgrade to at least Emacs 24.4. Your problem is due > to a file name which cannot be displayed using characters from the > current system codepage, so it shows the 8+3 alias for such file > names, and in your case the short alias appears to be empty. Emacs > 24.4 lifts that limitation, so you should see the full file name in > that case. Thanks for the tip. I will do shortly.