Re: dired wrongly says no file on line with point

On Monday 21 October 2002 05:13 am, Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] wrote: > >>>>> "Steven" == Steven T Hatton <hattons(a)speakeasy.net&gt; writes: > > Steven> This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, > Steven> not to your local site managers!! > Steven> Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have > Steven> translators to read other languages for them. > > > Steven> Please describe as succinctly as possible: > Steven> - What happened. > Steven> - What you thought should have happened. > Steven> - Precisely what you were doing at the time. > > Steven> Please also include any C or lisp back-traces that you may have. > Steven> ================================================================ > Steven> Dear Bug Team! > > Steven> I've noticed this with the last few builds. It may be older than a > Steven> week or so, but that's all the longer I've been aware of the > Steven> problem. What happens is, when I open dired I don't see the file > name Steven> highlighted under the mouse cursor. When I move point over the > file Steven> name and hit enter, I get an error saying "no file on this > line" > > This is almost certainly a locale issue. You need to do a M-x > dired-report-bug RET (in the buffer a problem has occurred) to give us > more information (and to direct it to the right place.) As you may already know, I sent a bug report to the dired developers. Just for the sake of informing other on the list what I've learned, this part of that report may be of interest: Dired works for root: ljosalfr:~ # locale LANG=POSIX LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL= ljosalfr:~ # But not for me: hattons＠ljosalfr:/download/org/xemacs/ Mon Oct 21 05:58:11:> locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE=POSIX LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= hattons＠ljosalfr:/download/org/xemacs/ Mon Oct 21 05:58:17:> This is a SuSE 8.1 box, and I really don't know what the locale setting does. I just use it because someone told me it would make all my stuff UTF-8 compliant.... sort of. Linux MUST move to UTF-8, and if this is part of the pain in doing so, so be it. -- Hatton's Law: There is only One inviolable Law