Re: Dired delete(d) the wrong file!

[Michael Heerdegen via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> diff --git a/lisp/files.el b/lisp/files.el
> index 042b8e2..c518273 100644
> --- a/lisp/files.el
> +++ b/lisp/files.el
> @@ -8087,8 +8087,8 @@ insert-directory-clean
>  		  (end (insert-directory-adj-pos
>  			(+ beg (read (current-buffer)))
>  			error-lines)))
> -	      (if (memq (char-after end) '(?\n ?\s))
> -		  ;; End is followed by \n or by " -> ".
> +	      (if (memq (char-after end) '(?\n ?\s ?/ ?* ?@ ?% ?= ?|))
> +		  ;; End is followed by \n or by output of -F.

How about emitting a warning message when this condition fails?  It
could help us to detect other problematic cases and warn users that
Dired needs to fall back to a heuristical parsing of ls output.


Michael.