This bug report will be sent to the Bug-GNU-Emacs mailing list and the GNU bug tracker at debbugs.gnu.org. Please check that the From: line contains a valid email address. After a delay of up to one day, you should receive an acknowledgement at that address. Please write in English if possible, as the Emacs maintainers usually do not have translators for other languages. Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug, and the precise symptoms of the bug. If you can, give a recipe starting from `emacs -Q': I recently wanted to mark all zero-size files in a dired buffer. I found that dired-mark-sexp seemed to be just what I needed, but when I invoked it with the expression (= size 0), I found that it marked every file, even those of nonzero size. Here's a test directory I set up: /home/mcafee/test: total used in directory 28 available 102379756 drwxrwxr-x 2 mcafee mcafee 4096 Jan 27 18:31 . drwxr-xr-x 44 mcafee mcafee 12288 Jan 27 18:31 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 mcafee mcafee 8 Jan 27 18:31 bar -rw-rw-r-- 1 mcafee mcafee 12 Jan 27 18:31 baz -rw-rw-r-- 1 mcafee mcafee 4 Jan 27 18:31 foo In this directory, I ran dired-mark-sexp with the following expression, intended to exercise all of the available symbols: (progn (message "name=%s;inode=%s;s=%s;mode=%s;nlink=%s;uid=%s;gid=%s;size=%s;time=%s;sym=%s" name inodes mode nlink uid gid size time sym) nil) Here are the messages that were produced: name=.;inode=0;s=0;mode=drwxrwxr-x;nlink=2;uid=mcafee;gid=2;size=0;time= mcafee 4096 Jan 27 18:31;sym= name=..;inode=0;s=0;mode=drwxr-xr-x;nlink=44;uid=mcafee;gid=44;size=0;time= mcafee 12288 Jan 27 18:31;sym= name=bar;inode=0;s=0;mode=-rw-rw-r--;nlink=1;uid=mcafee;gid=1;size=0;time= mcafee 8 Jan 27 18:31;sym= name=baz;inode=0;s=0;mode=-rw-rw-r--;nlink=1;uid=mcafee;gid=1;size=0;time= mcafee 12 Jan 27 18:31;sym= name=foo;inode=0;s=0;mode=-rw-rw-r--;nlink=1;uid=mcafee;gid=1;size=0;time= mcafee 4 Jan 27 18:31;sym= Clearly, the "time" variable includes more of the directory listing than it should, and "size" is incorrectly set to zero for all files, as I originally noticed. 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In GNU Emacs 24.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.12) of 2012-09-22 on batsu, modified by Debian Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11300000 Configured using: `configure '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp' '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -O2' 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Dired by name Minor modes in effect: gnus-dired-mode: t recentf-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode: t ido-everywhere: t global-undo-tree-mode: t diff-auto-refine-mode: t desktop-save-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: y SPC = SPC . 2 5 SPC = SPC * S-SPC 3 0 SPC = SPC C-u M-: ( * S-SPC 2 . 2 5 SPC 3 0 ) C-p C-p C-n C-n C-p RET C-/ M-x t w i t i ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-a C-n C-f C-f C-f C-f v i C-v C-x k C-a M-< C-p C-n q C-n C-n M-x g n u s q M-B C-x d ~ / C-j + t e s t a M-! t p e c h o SPC f o o SPC > S-SPC f o o ; SPC e h o SPC b c h o SPC b a r SPC b a r SPC > S-SPC b a r ; SPC e c h o SPC b a z SPC b a z SPC b a z SPC > S-SPC b a z g C-p C-n M-: C-g M-( ( p r o g n SPC ( m e s s a g e S-SPC C-g M-( M-p M-p M-n C-e C-x b m e s s M-x r e [ p r = e p o r t e m - e m b u C-g C-x b k M-( C-h C-g C-h k C-g C-g M-( C-g C-h k M-( C-x 1 M-x M-p d i C-g C-g C-h k M-( C-g C-x 1 M-x M-p Recent messages: name=foo;inode=0;s=0;mode=-rw-rw-r--;nlink=1;uid=mcafee;gid=1;size=0;time= mcafee 4 Jan 27 18:31;sym= 0 '(progn (message name=%s;inode=%s;s=%s;mode=%s;nlink=%s;uid=%s;gid=%s;size=%s;time=%s;sym=%s name inode s mode nlink uid gid size time sym) nil) files marked. 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