Newsgroups: comp.emacs Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!clarkson!grape.ecs.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Subject: Re: Freemacs dired Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Distribution: comp Date: 25 Jun 91 00:55:18 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: mjh@zurich.ai.mit.edu's message of 24 Jun 91 22:25:20 GMT References: Sender: usenet@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu In article mjh@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Mark Hood) writes: I've just downloaded the version of Freemacs available on Simtel. It looks like a nice Emacs, but I can't get dired to work the way I expect. ``n'' and ``p'' seem to skip 5 or 6 directory entries at a time and the editor beeps at me when trying to read a file with ``f'' or ``e''. The normal find-file ``^X^F'' mechanism works on those same files. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm running DOS 5.0 on a PS/2 model 80. I'll bet you that DOS 5.0 changes the output of command.com's DIR. The current Freemacs dired depends on it being constant. Of course, I never suspected that foreign language DOSes would change the names, so dired also fails under them. E.g. French DOS says instead of . Freemacs 1.7a will use a 'ls' command for its dired. Don't ask me when it'll be out -- I'm off for two weeks vacation, at which point I start a new job, and a month later there'll be another Nelson in the household... Can you say busy? -- --russ I'm proud to be a humble Quaker. I am leaving the employ of Clarkson as of June 30. Hopefully this email address will remain. If it doesn't, use nelson@gnu.ai.mit.edu.