Article View: gnu.emacs.bug
Article #98489In dired it is difficult to deal with files that start with a #
From: Dan_Jacobson
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 16:53
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 16:53
21 lines
1481 bytes
1481 bytes
>>>>> On 25 Jun 91 19:24:23 GMT, jta@sah.sah.vtt.fi (Juha Takala) said: Juha> In article <1991Jun18.074410.8353@cs.ruu.nl> piet@cs.ruu.nl Juha> (Piet van Oostrum) writes: PvO> A buffer whose name ends with a space character cannot be PvO> selected from the buffer menu. Juha> Which reminds me about another thing: In dired it is difficult Juha> (impossible?) to rename files with \n in there names. Which reminds me about another thing: In dired it is difficult sometimes to deal with files that start with a #. e.g., (dired "~/.mail/#pos*") gets the whole directory, not just the files that start with #pos. Anyway, this is all probably explainable due to doing a sh -c "ls ...." so no big deal. 18.57 on a Sun.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<DANJ1.91Jun25125334@ihburn.ATT.COM>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!att.com!Dan_JacobsonReferences:
Dan_Jacobson@att.comShow Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,3d99733c5999ff16,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-06-25 09:53:00 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!att.com!Dan_Jacobson From: Dan_Jacobson@att.com Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: In dired it is difficult to deal with files that start with a # Message-ID: <DANJ1.91Jun25125334@ihburn.ATT.COM> Date: 25 Jun 91 16:53:00 GMT References: Dan_Jacobson@att.com Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Reply-To: Dan_Jacobson@ihlpz.att.com Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 21 Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu