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Re: Dired confused by filenames starting with date-like strings
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Jesse Alama |
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Re: Dired confused by filenames starting with date-like strings |
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Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:48:10 -0700 |
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Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
> kg6mar@gmail.com writes:
>> Dired gets confused by certain filenames in which the beginning
>> resembles a date and there is an embedded space (my photograph naming
>> convention). It fails to assemble the entire filename.
>
> 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. So to fix this problem, try installing GNU ls (I guess that means
> cygwin, as you're on ms-windows?) and setting dired-use-ls-dired to t.
After following this discussion I wanted to set this variable to `t'.
I didn't want to use `setq' to I tried setting the variable using
cusomize-variable. But I see in dired.el that dired-use-ls-dired is
defined as follows:
(defvar dired-use-ls-dired (not (not (string-match "gnu" system-configuration)))
"Non-nil means Dired should use `ls --dired'.")
Would anything go wrong if this variable were customizable?
Jesse
--
Jesse Alama (alama@stanford.edu)
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- Re: Dired confused by filenames starting with date-like strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/08/24
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