Dear Developers, As the topic said, the dired-re-month-and-time will match the size-of-file generated by function mswindows-insert-directory. Please try to run search-forward-regexp with default dired-re-month-and-time value againt following lines, and you will see the problem. -rw-rw-rw- 1 KAIFA 0 606 Dec 20 16:54 custom-load.el -rw-rw-rw- 1 KAIFA 0 974 Dec 20 16:54 custom-load.elc -rw-rw-rw- 1 KAIFA 0 11843 Dec 20 16:54 diff.el -rw-rw-rw- 1 KAIFA 0 5759 Dec 20 16:54 diff.elc -rw-rw-rw- 1 KAIFA 0 9899 Dec 20 16:54 dired-cmpr.el -rw-rw-rw- 1 KAIFA 0 5699 Dec 20 16:54 dired-cmpr.elc -rw-rw-rw- 1 KAIFA 0 6225 Dec 20 16:54 dired-diff.el -rw-rw-rw- 1 KAIFA 0 4424 Dec 20 16:54 dired-diff.elc -rw-rw-rw- 1 KAIFA 0 3523 Dec 20 16:54 dired-faces.el -rw-rw-rw- 1 KAIFA 0 3065 Dec 20 16:54 dired-faces.elc -rw-rw-rw- 1 KAIFA 0 16636 Dec 20 16:54 dired-grep.el -rw-rw-rw- 1 KAIFA 0 10883 Dec 20 16:54 dired-grep.elc -rw-rw-rw- 1 KAIFA 0 15799 Dec 20 16:54 dired-help.el -rw-rw-rw- 1 KAIFA 0 13896 Dec 20 16:54 dired-help.elc -rw-rw-rw- 1 KAIFA 0 4105 Dec 20 16:54 dired-mob.el -rw-rw-rw- 1 KAIFA 0 2952 Dec 20 16:54 dired-mob.elc -rw-rw-rw- 1 KAIFA 0 1259 Dec 20 16:54 dired-mule.el -rw-rw-rw- 1 KAIFA 0 1422 Dec 20 16:54 dired-mule.elc -rw-rw-rw- 1 KAIFA 0 2239 Dec 20 16:54 dired-oas.el -rw-rw-rw- 1 KAIFA 0 2037 Dec 20 16:54 dired-oas.elc -rw-rw-rw- 1 KAIFA 0 10533 Dec 20 16:54 dired-rgxp.el Point sometimes stop at _Dec, which will cause the "Dec 20 16:54 xxxx" being marked as a filename. In case we have to populate dir list by self_implemented mswindows-insert-directory, which output format will be fully in control of XEmacs developer, why don't just use a fixed dired-re-month-and-time regular expression in windows? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta