Re: dired-do-toggle

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <David.Kastrup@t-online.de>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: 04 Nov 2001 14:55:50 +0100
> 
> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> 
>     Eli> I think I need to see the smallest part of your Dired buffer which,
>     Eli> if marked, causes this problem.  Please copy that part of the Dired
>     Eli> buffer into your message and post here.
> 
> I have often heard something like that when running under some locale
> different from English, since then the date strings in the ls output
> are no longer recognized by Emacs.

You blew my cover ;-)

Yes, my current working hypothesis about this is that `ls' produces
something that confuses Dired.

> This certainly should be changed, but I have no good idea how.

Emacs 20 supported quite a few non-English formats; Emacs 21.1
supports even more.  Some of these formats are specifically targeted
to Japanese environments.  So it should work, at least in principle.
However, it's possible that we need to add yet another regexp in
dired-move-to-filename-regexp ;-)