From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 24 find-dired problems on Windows Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:30:15 +0300 Message-ID: <83y5pd6duw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <233eaa64-7f29-49ca-ae4b-019b6410a01d@a8g2000pbe.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335760217 21229 80.91.229.3 (30 Apr 2012 04:30:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:30:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 30 06:30:16 2012 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 1SOiFc-0004fI-CP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:30:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38702 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOiFZ-0003bU-Uf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:30:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54133) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOiFT-0003ZA-Ud for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:30:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOiFS-0001JD-7m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:47663) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOiFR-0001Go-WC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:30:06 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M3900000Z2UTU00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:30:04 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.21.156]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M3900042Z63SZ30@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:30:04 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <233eaa64-7f29-49ca-ae4b-019b6410a01d@a8g2000pbe.googlegroups.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84678 Archived-At: > From: Xah Lee > 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.