From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dired confused by filenames starting with date-like strings Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:56:33 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1156356934.469929.210320@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <87sljnf670.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156420623 4057 80.91.229.2 (24 Aug 2006 11:57:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:57:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 24 13:57:01 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 1GGDpO-0001Y6-HM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:56:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGDpL-0007xO-Fd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:56:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GGDpA-0007xJ-0x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:56:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GGDp7-0007x7-9e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:56:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGDp7-0007x4-6F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:56:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.72.192.227] (helo=fmmailgate02.web.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GGDx9-0000YV-B6; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:04:55 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp07.web.de (fmsmtp07.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.215]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6161816DF8A8; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:56:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [84.245.187.98] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp07.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.107 #114) id 1GGDp5-0007X2-00; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:56:35 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87sljnf670.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-Image-Url: http://homepage.mac.com/sparifankal/.cv/thumbs/me.thumbnail Original-To: Miles Bader X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de 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:36901 Archived-At: Am 24.08.2006 um 00:17 schrieb Miles Bader: > This works correctly on my system, because dired invokes ls with the > "--dired" option (a feature of GNU ls, which causes ls to output extra > information about where the names are located). > > The variable `dired-use-ls-dired' controls whether dired does this or > not. When I do (setq dired-use-ls-dired "/sw/bin/gls --dired") (with or without "/sw/bin/") and then open a directory in dired-mode, my GNU Emacsen 22.0.50 and 23.0.0 tell me: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Listing directory failed but `access-file' worked") signal(error ("Listing directory failed but `access-file' worked")) error("Listing directory failed but `access-file' worked") insert-directory("/Users/pete/" "--dired -al" nil t) dired-insert-directory("/Users/pete/" "-al" nil nil t) dired-readin-insert() dired-readin() dired-internal-noselect("~/" nil) dired-noselect("~/" nil) dired("~/" nil) call-interactively(dired) and no listing. -- Greetings Pete Without vi there is only GNU Emacs