10:35 p.m.
To: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org
Subject: dired fails with some locales
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Dear Bug Team!
In dired mode, the up/down cursor key was putting the cursor at the
start of each line, instead of at the filename. Pressing ENTER (even
when I manually positioned the cursor to the start of the filename
part) resulted in the error 'No file on line'.
For reasons unknown to me, the 'ls -l' command is outputting file mod
times with dates formatted as 'mm-dd' (eg 08-23), instead of the usual
'MMM dd' (eg Aug 23).
Took me a few hours to discover that this was why dired was failing.
Example output from my system's 'ls -s' follows:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 08-18 00:14 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 08-18 00:14 cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 08-18 01:33 conf
After some study of dired.el, I found the regexp for matching
filenames in dired listings, 'dired-re-month-and-time'.
My fix is a bit yuck, but it works. Should be usable as a starting
point for an official xemacs package maintainer to do it right.
Hack dired.el, near line 791 (where dired-re-month-and-time gets set)
Change
(date-month (concat "\\(" date " " month "\\)")))
to:
(date-month (concat "\\(" date " " month "\\)"))
(date-date (concat "\\(" date "\-" date "\\)")))
Then, delete dired.elc (or byte-recompile dired.el)
After restarting Xemacs, dired should then work nicely!
Cheers
David McNab
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