On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:52:01 -0800, Noah <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> * Use a file manager.
>>
>> I often use `dired-mode' inside an Emacs session to move around,
>> copy, re-organize, rename or delete files. Any file manager that
>> can display several character sets at once will do fine :)
>
> Hey there Giorgos,
>
> I'd love to use emacs but I go into 'dired-mode' and I try to rename the
> ^M' directory and receive an error from emacs. The error claims
> "file-error Renaming no such file or directory /mnt/mybook-music/^M
> /mnt/mybook-music/Music2
>
> What do I do?
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.
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