From: Dave Goel <deego3@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Dave Goel <deego3@gmail.com>
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dired delete(d) the wrong file!
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2024 15:02:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOCW0Di634q+Ba+1YGk3D02PTfG1t8O+e_=7gsS2yVe6Urs-EQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <868qyg6qvl.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 7:05 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> That regexp is the best heuristic we could come up with that caters to
> the various formats of date and time that the various versions of 'ls'
> out there produce. It is true that the regexp can be tricked into
> mistakes, but we could not find a better solution that supports all
> the valid use cases. We use the --dired option of 'ls' when available
> precisely for this reason: to allow Dired to determine the file names
> reliably. If --dired is not supported, then there will be problems
> with certain file names, yes. That is a known limitation, so users
> are encouraged to install GNU Coreutils (which is where GNU 'ls' comes
> from) to make Dired immune to those problems.
>
Thank you.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-05 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-04 22:36 Dired delete(d) the wrong file! Dave Goel
2024-07-04 23:35 ` Dave Goel
2024-07-05 1:40 ` Dave Goel
2024-07-05 8:01 ` Tassilo Horn
2024-07-05 1:24 ` Po Lu
2024-07-05 5:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-05 5:50 ` Dave Goel
2024-07-05 7:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-05 8:06 ` Dave Goel
2024-07-05 8:12 ` Dave Goel
2024-07-05 8:26 ` Dave Goel
2024-07-05 8:39 ` Dave Goel
2024-07-05 11:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-05 19:02 ` Dave Goel [this message]
2024-07-05 11:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-05 9:53 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-07-05 10:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-05 23:28 ` Michael Heerdegen via Emacs development discussions.
2024-07-06 6:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-05 5:50 ` Po Lu
2024-07-05 7:11 ` Michael Heerdegen via Emacs development discussions.
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