From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: dired and multiple command problem Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:13:28 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20100111175302.3f61f9f2@dell1.thp.nat.tu-bs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263269814 10815 80.91.229.12 (12 Jan 2010 04:16:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:16:54 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Wolfram Brenig'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 12 05:16:47 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NUYBS-0003VV-OI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:16:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60517 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NUYBT-0001yx-37 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:16:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NUYB8-0001ys-NX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:16:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NUYB2-0001yg-O5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:16:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58762 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NUYB2-0001yd-KT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:16:20 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet11.oracle.com ([148.87.113.123]:47486) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NUYB2-0002dM-9z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:16:20 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet13.oracle.com (rcsinet13.oracle.com [148.87.113.125]) by rcsinet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o0C4GH8G025900 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:16:18 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by rcsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o0C4GErw016150; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:16:15 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt012.oracle.com by acsmt355.oracle.com with ESMTP id 1317648071263269609; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:13:29 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.64.254) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:13:29 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <20100111175302.3f61f9f2@dell1.thp.nat.tu-bs.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 Thread-Index: AcqTLRGBE6wGMW9IRm6lDIbMAJ1lnQADlR4Q X-Source-IP: acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090209.4B4BF791.004E:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:71187 Archived-At: > I'm using dired+.el for my directory listing. > > When marking multiple files and trying to 'cp' or symlink > them as a whole using 'C' or 'Y' only the first in the list > of marked files gets copied or link and the mini-buffer says: > > Listing directory failed but 'access-file' worked > > What am I doing wrong? Dired+ is not part of vanilla Emacs. Please report Dired+ bugs to me directly, by email. Mention your specific Emacs version, and try to provide a reproducible recipe that starts with `emacs -Q'. IOW, don't load your init file; load only dired+.el, explicitly. I assume you mean that you have no problem with `C' and `Y' when using vanilla Dired (e.g. emacs -Q, without loading dired+.el). I cannot reproduce the problem, given only your description so far. When I mark several files, then hit `C' and supply a target directory, all of the marked files are copied to that directory. But I'm not getting the error you encounter - that error is probably the cause of the lack of multiple copies. The question then becomes what is causing the error. Send me as much specific info as you can, and I'll see what I can do. FYI, the error message comes from function `insert-directory', which is defined in files.el (not a Dired file). You can try loading files.el (not files.elc) and using `M-x debug-on-entry insert-directory', and then repeat your recipe to use the debugger (`d' and `c') to see what goes wrong. If you cannot reproduce the problem from emacs -Q together with only dired+.el, then you will need to find out what else in your init file might be contributing to the error. Try to narrow things down as much as possible, then send me whatever info you glean. Thx - Drew