From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 9039@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9039: 24.0.50; dired "f" fails on directory that begins with a space
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 19:46:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8662nasvis.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8dliw6500t.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Sat, 09 Jul 2011 22:42:42 -0400")
>>>>> "GM" == Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
>> nil. The default.
GM> The default is `unspecified'.
How so? I have nothing to set it, and it comes up nil. How is that not
the defaul then?
GM> OK, your dired doesn't support the --dired option. In this case, dired
GM> is known to not perform as well, especially with regards to file names
GM> with spaces. If you install GNU ls, it will work better.
And yet, "find-file" finds the directory with a space just fine, and
even autocompletes it.
Why isn't GNU Emacs using readdir() and stat() internally? Why is it
depending on an external ls?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-10 2:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-10 2:21 bug#9039: 24.0.50; dired "f" fails on directory that begins with a space merlyn
2011-07-10 2:33 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-10 2:38 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-07-10 2:42 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-10 2:45 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-10 2:46 ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2011-07-10 3:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-10 3:08 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-07-13 17:57 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-13 18:03 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-07-13 18:05 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-13 18:11 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-07-10 4:43 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-13 10:02 ` Manuel Giraud
2011-07-13 18:05 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-07-13 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
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