From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dired confused by filenames starting with date-like strings Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:58:07 -0500 Organization: UseNetServer.com Message-ID: <96401$44f0ed89$49f207e$30680@DIALUPUSA.NET> References: <1156356934.469929.210320@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com><1156441406.766871.297830@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com><3be73$44ef8732$49f2063$21096@DIALUPUSA.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156642844 28533 80.91.229.2 (27 Aug 2006 01:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:40:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 27 03:40:40 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GH9dZ-0003Y9-D1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 03:40:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GH9dZ-0006HI-06 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:40:33 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.net!atl-c08.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc02.usenetserver.com!DIALUPUSA.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: 9640144f0ed89a13a85db30680 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:141337 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36957 Archived-At: "Eli Zaretskii" wrote in message news:mailman.5676.1156594178.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org... > > From: "B. T. Raven" > > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help > > Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:28:15 -0500 > > > > This behavior isn't affected by the setting of > > ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program. With this set to t, it seems like > > emacs should be using dir rather than ls. It doesn't know where to find > > the ls.exe binary in cygwin. > > That's a different problem, and it has an easy solution: modify the > value of the Path environment variable so that it includes the Cygwin > bin/ directory. > > I agree that dragging in the Cygwin emulator is a red herring, but that still leaves the op's original question unanswered: are there any settings in the w32 build of ver. 21.3.1 that will allow dired to work correctly with files named like "nnnn-nn-nn xxx*" ? From what has been said here so far, it still looks like a bug.