From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dired confused by filenames starting with date-like strings Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:27:42 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <1156356934.469929.210320@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <87sljnf670.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156429790 5552 80.91.229.2 (24 Aug 2006 14:29:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:29:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 24 16:29:48 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 1GGGD5-0005ix-LH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:29:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGGD4-0004oH-W9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:29:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GGGCf-0004VW-7d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:29:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GGGCd-0004Sb-9V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:29:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GGGCd-0004SR-55 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:29:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GGGKh-0007MQ-IL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:37:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GGGCE-0005Vm-Gi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:28:38 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:28:38 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:28:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) In-Reply-To: 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:36902 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa wrote: > > 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. There is no reason to set dired-use-ls-dired to anything but t or nil. In particular, it does not determine which ls program is run. Try: (setq insert-directory-program "/sw/bin/ls" dired-use-ls-dired t) -- Kevin