From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 24 find-dired problems on Windows Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:13:43 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <233eaa64-7f29-49ca-ae4b-019b6410a01d@a8g2000pbe.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335766816 25618 80.91.229.3 (30 Apr 2012 06:20:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:20:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 30 08:20:16 2012 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 1SOjy2-0005Rq-4B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:20:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42365 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOjy1-00012Z-Bs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:20:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a8g2000pbe.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.112.84 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1335766511 23218 127.0.0.1 (30 Apr 2012 06:15:11 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:15:11 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a8g2000pbe.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.112.84; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.162 Safari/535.19,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192269 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84679 Archived-At: On Apr 29, 9:30=A0pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Xah Lee > > Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:23:43 -0700 (PDT) > > > there seems to be a problem of emacs 24's find-dired. > > > when using GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1, calling find-dired, i got one of this: > > > =A0 2533274790481547 =A0 =A02 -rwx------ =A0 1 h3 =A0 =A0 =A0 None =A0 = =A0 =A0 =A0 2994 Apr > > 28 20:52 xx\ saga\ of\ bsof\ 2011-07-22.html > > > note the backslash there. > > > when i move the cursor to that line and press Enter, i get: > > > dired-get-file-for-visit: File no longer exists; type `g' to update > > dired buffer > > My crystal ball says that you are using a Cygwin build of Find, which > produces file names with spaces escaped in a style suitable for a > Unixy shell, which the native Windows Emacs cannot grok (because > backslashes are directory separators in native Windows file names). > > Solution: use a native Windows port of Find. hi Eli, your crystal ball is correct. :) Xah