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From: Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: File without a name appears in a dired buffer
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 16:14:01 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6b881c1-32a2-4c3a-ae0b-7e8ef3a69d64@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1064.1465312636.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

Here is what CMD says: I am using cygwin 64 bit.  Note how the empty
file name does not occur, it only appears inside Emacs version 23.1.1:

C:\Downloads\ABBA Discography [24 96]>ls -al
total 22437
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 May 19 06:52 .
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Jun  7 06:38 ..
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Jun  2 03:00 '1973  Ring Ring'
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Nov 22  2015 '1974  Waterloo'
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Nov 22  2015 '1975  ABBA'
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Nov 22  2015 '1976  All About ABBA'
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Nov 22  2015 '1976  Arrival'
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Nov 22  2015 '1977  The Album'
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Nov 22  2015 '1979  Voulez-Vous'
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Nov 22  2015 '1980  Super Trouper'
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Nov 22  2015 '1981  The Visitors'
-rwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators 22873347 Nov 19  2015 'ABBA. '$'\320\236\320\277\320\270\321\201\320\260\320\275\320\270\320\265'' '$'\320\277\321\200\320\265\320\267\320\265\320\275\321\202\320\260\321\206\320\270\320\270''..pdf'
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Nov 19  2015 Pictures
-rwxrwxrwx  1 Davin Pearson  None                359 Jun  2 03:02 a.wav


On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 3:17:18 AM UTC+12, Yuri Khan wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Barry Margolin <barmar at alum dot mit dot edu> wrote:
> 
> > It's a directory, not a file. And the name is probably some number of
> > spaces.
> 
> That’s unlikely, seeing as the path includes a drive letter. Windows
> does not easily allow space-only names.
> 
> >>   c:/Downloads/ABBA Discography [24 96]:
> >>   total used in directory 1 available 57327936
> >>   drwxrwxrwx  1 Administrators Administrators   0 05-19 06:52      <--- here
> >>   drwxrwxrwx  1 Administrators Administrators   0 05-19 06:52 .
> 
> 
> @Davin: What does “dir” in plain old CMD say about this directory? If
> you use Cygwin or MSYS, what does their “ls -al” say?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-07 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-07  7:57 File without a name appears in a dired buffer Davin Pearson
2016-06-07 14:45 ` Barry Margolin
2016-06-07 15:16   ` Yuri Khan
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1064.1465312636.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-07 23:14     ` Davin Pearson [this message]
2016-06-08  9:17       ` Yuri Khan
2016-06-07 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.1059.1465311699.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-07 23:00   ` Davin Pearson
2016-06-08  2:48     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1106.1465354073.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-08  3:06       ` Davin Pearson

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