From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Davin Pearson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: File without a name appears in a dired buffer Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 16:14:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1465341333 29837 80.91.229.3 (7 Jun 2016 23:15:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 23:15:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 08 01:15:33 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bAQDb-0000a9-RN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2016 01:15:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53512 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bAQDX-0007St-KL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 19:15:27 -0400 X-Received: by 10.66.220.40 with SMTP id pt8mr7431152pac.21.1465341242007; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 16:14:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.103.17 with SMTP id u17mr191892itc.4.1465341241738; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 16:14:01 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!q32no5006413qgq.0!news-out.google.com!z5ni138qge.0!nntp.google.com!q32no5006412qgq.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=202.124.123.170; posting-account=SVVH0AoAAABplEQzMkIR3gU7a0gK8IuF Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.124.123.170 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 23:14:01 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218058 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110367 Archived-At: 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 Ri= ng Ring' drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators 0 Nov 22 2015 '1974 Wa= terloo' drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators 0 Nov 22 2015 '1975 AB= BA' drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators 0 Nov 22 2015 '1976 Al= l About ABBA' drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators 0 Nov 22 2015 '1976 Ar= rival' drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators 0 Nov 22 2015 '1977 Th= e Album' drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators 0 Nov 22 2015 '1979 Vo= ulez-Vous' drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators 0 Nov 22 2015 '1980 Su= per Trouper' drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators 0 Nov 22 2015 '1981 Th= e 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\27= 0\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 wrote: >=20 > > It's a directory, not a file. And the name is probably some number of > > spaces. >=20 > That=E2=80=99s unlikely, seeing as the path includes a drive letter. Wind= ows > does not easily allow space-only names. >=20 > >> 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 . >=20 >=20 > @Davin: What does =E2=80=9Cdir=E2=80=9D in plain old CMD say about this d= irectory? If > you use Cygwin or MSYS, what does their =E2=80=9Cls -al=E2=80=9D say?