GNU bug report logs - #44273
"total used in directory 19 available 5.2 GiB"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 07:21:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: patch, wontfix

Merged with 36729

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #97 received at 44273 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: mattiase <at> acm.org, 44273 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: Re: bug#44273: "total used in directory 19 available 5.2 GiB"
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:36:07 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> The data can come from `ls-lisp', but it could also come from "ls": We
>> just need to write a parser that parses the data.
>
> The data which comes from 'ls' can take many different formats,
> depending on the switches.  Parsing each and every one of them sounds
> daunting.

But dired does parse the output.  It's just that it leaves all the
artefacts in the buffer, leading all the commands to have workarounds
for different layouts. 

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