Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:59:02 -0800, Noah <adm...@enabled.com> wrote:
If you have customized `dired-listing-switches' try reverting it to a
simpler set of options, like:
(setq-default dired-listing-switches "-lFa")
The -b and -B options tend to confuse dired about what the *real*
filename is, and may trigger this sort of error.
thanks I placed that setq option in my .emacs and that works for
renaming files and directories containing control character. I am
unable to rename a directory that has nine '?'.
What setq modification will allow emacs to change those type filenames?
This seems like a dired problem. Are the characters _really_ the
question mark character, or are they merely characters that are
un-displayable in the current coding system?
What do you see when you move the point on that filename and then type
`C-u C-x ='? If the characters are really the question mark, then the
informational buffer that pops up should include something like this:
n...@tsunami:/mnt/mybook-music$ ls -lB | less
total 1778688
drwxr-xr-x 3 noah noah 0 2005-01-09 15:26 ?????????
-rwx------ 1 noah noah 1841776 2007-12-13 19:57
00_arditi-standards_of_triumph-2006-cd-amrc.jpg
-rwx------ 1 noah noah 3223290 2007-12-13 20:02
00_arditi-standards_of_triumph-2006-front-amrc.jpg
-rwx------ 1 noah noah 2989502 2007-12-13 20:07
00_arditi-standards_of_triumph-2006-inlay1-amrc.jpg
Here is what is shown in emacs:
character: ? (63, #o77, #x3f, U+003F)
charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
code point: #x3F
syntax: . which means: punctuation
category: a:ASCII graphic characters 32-126 (ISO646 IRV:1983[4/0])
l:Latin
buffer code: #x3F
file code: #x3F (encoded by coding system mule-utf-8)
display: by this font (glyph code)
-Adobe-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--12-120-75-75-M-70-ISO8859-1 (#x3F)
There are text properties here:
dired-filename t
face dired-directory
fontified t
help-echo "mouse-2: visit this file in other window"
mouse-face highlight
,-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| character: ? (63, #o77, #x3f)
| preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
| code point: 0x3F
| syntax: . which means: punctuation
| category: a:ASCII
| ASCII graphic characters 32-126 (ISO646 IRV:1983[4/0]) l:Latin r:Roman
| Japanese roman
| buffer code: #x3F
| file code: #x3F (encoded by coding system utf-8-emacs-unix)
| display: terminal code #x3F
|
| Character code properties: customize what to show
| name: QUESTION MARK
| general-category: Po (Punctuation, Other)
|
| There are text properties here:
| fontified t
|
`-----------------------------------------------------------------------
ASCII code 63 (octal #o77, hex #x3f) in this case is the question-mark
character.
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