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Re: Dired confused by filenames starting with date-like strings


From: B. T. Raven
Subject: Re: Dired confused by filenames starting with date-like strings
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:58:07 -0500

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> wrote in message
news:mailman.5676.1156594178.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
> > From: "B. T. Raven" <ecinmn@alcisp.com>
> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> > Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:28:15 -0500
> >
> > This behavior isn't affected by the setting of
> > ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program. With this set to t, it seems
like
> > emacs should be using dir rather than ls. It doesn't know where to
find
> > the ls.exe binary in cygwin.
>
> That's a different problem, and it has an easy solution: modify the
> value of the Path environment variable so that it includes the Cygwin
> bin/ directory.
>
>

I agree that dragging in the Cygwin emulator is a red herring, but that
still leaves the op's original question unanswered: are there any settings
in the w32 build of ver. 21.3.1 that will allow dired to work correctly
with files named like "nnnn-nn-nn xxx*" ?  From what has been said here so
far, it still looks like a bug.



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