Re: Bug in ange-ftp parsing of ls output

[Michael Albinus]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> I've submitted a fix which should solve your problem. I cannot check
>> whether it breaks the syntax for Japanese dates - could somebody,
>> please, check it?
>
> Is there any hope we could get dired.el and ange-ftp.el to share the
> same regexp.  The dired regexp is kept fairly well uptodate, so if ange-ftp
> could use it, it might help,

You're right, `dired-move-to-filename-regexp' looks more robust than
`ange-ftp-date-regexp' (and it hasn't the bug Kim reported). But for
common use, this regexp should be moved to a more general package
(files.el?, simple.el?) in order to avoid dependencies on dired.

Other packages, like tramp, could benefit also from this.

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.