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dired-mode doesn't work with -F switch to ls
From: |
Krishnakumar B |
Subject: |
dired-mode doesn't work with -F switch to ls |
Date: |
Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:20:27 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
With the following in my .emacs:
(setq dired-listing-switches "-alF")
if I open a dired buffer, and try to visit an executable file (say a batch
file), I get the following error:
dired-get-file-for-visit: File no longer exists; type `g' to update dired buffer
Which is not true, i.e., the file exists. I think that Emacs is somehow
confused by the trailing * in the dired listing for executable files, and
tries to open a file with a * at the end. Stack trace when error occurs is
below:
signal(error ("File no longer exists; type `g' to update dired buffer"))
error("File no longer exists; type `g' to update dired buffer")
dired-get-file-for-visit()
dired-advertised-find-file()
call-interactively(dired-advertised-find-file)
This used to work in GNU Emacs. I am able to reproduce it with emacs -q
and manually setting the dired-listing-switches variable. For example, a
file rename also fails with the following error:
Thu Oct 05 21:12:01 2006 Buffer `bin'
Move `c:/Tools/bin/ls.exe*' to `c:/Tools/bin/gls.exe' failed:
(file-error Renaming invalid argument c:/Tools/bin/ls.exe* c:/Tools/bin/gls.exe)
I don't have Cygwin installed, but I do have UnixUtils installed (which
ships with GNU ls). But I think the default configuration of GNU Emacs on
Windows doesn't use the insert-directory-program since
ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program is nil by default. I also checked the
behaviour after renaming ls to gls, but the error persists. So I think
that it's a bug in the lisp emulation of ls (or somewhere in dired-mode).
-kitty.
In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.2.3790)
of 2006-09-19 on EQUUS
X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.2.3790
configured using `configure --with-msvc (13.10)'
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: ENU
locale-coding-system: cp1252
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Dired by name
Minor modes in effect:
display-time-mode: t
recentf-mode: t
icomplete-mode: t
auto-image-file-mode: t
delete-selection-mode: t
partial-completion-mode: t
shell-dirtrack-mode: t
encoded-kbd-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent input:
<switch-frame> <switch-frame> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-1> <f2> . e m <tab> <return> <prior> <prior>
C-x k <f1> <f2> $ C-g $ c C-/ <f2> <M-backspace> t
o o <tab> b i n <tab> <return> C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n
C-n <return> g g <return> q <switch-frame> <switch-frame>
<f1> <f2> C-g M-x r e i <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
d i r e d - r e <backspace> <backspace> b u <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> r e p o <tab> r t <tab> <r
eturn>
Recent messages:
Loading places from c:/kitty/.emacs-places...done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
Beginning of buffer
scroll-signal-boundary-error: Beginning of buffer
Quit
Undo...
Undo!
dired-get-file-for-visit: File no longer exists; type `g' to update dired
buffer [2 times]
Quit
Loading emacsbug...done
--
Krishnakumar B <kitty at dre dot vanderbilt dot edu>
Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Dept. of EECS, Vanderbilt University
- dired-mode doesn't work with -F switch to ls,
Krishnakumar B <=