Re: dired wrongly says no file on line with point

Steven> I've noticed this with the last few builds. It may be Steven> older than a week or so, but that's all the longer I've Steven> been aware of the problem. What happens is, when I open Steven> dired I don't see the file name highlighted under the Steven> mouse cursor. When I move point over the file name and hit Steven> enter, I get an error saying "no file on this line" There are a bunch of dired bugs that have to do with locale lossage. This sounds like one of them. Dired can handle non-ASCII filename, but any change in the output of ls -l drives it nuts. M-x dired-report-bug is the best way to get the maintainer's attention. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py