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Dired unable to properly recognize file names

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Message #17 received at 5597 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 5597 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
	Otto Maddox <ottomaddox <at> fastmail.fm>
Subject: Re: bug#5597: Dired unable to properly recognize file names
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:27:24 -0500

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
>> I think it depends on whether your `ls' supports --dired.
>
> Indeed it fails if one sets dired-use-ls-dired to nil.

The trouble is that directory-listing-before-filename-regexp matches
that last possible string that looks like a date.  It has to do this
because, without knowing anything else about the locale, we can't
distinguish (say) user-names from month names.

However, when we are using the iso date format, it's possible to be
stricter, and I have changed the regexp accordingly.  This fixes the bug
for the current specific case.  Though I'm not sure how to fix it for,
say, files named "Aug  7 2009 foo".

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