Re: emacs dired-move-to-filename-regexp can't deal with numerical months [internationalization]

[Dan Jacobson]

However, if one does a dired using a wildcard: "dired ~/*.c" or whatever,
the foreign dates are back and dried again sees "no file on this line", etc.

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> Say you've got a non-English system.
> Why does emacs' dired get confused?  I might have the answer:
>
> "Kai Großjohann" <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> ?????
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> > On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> > > one finds the cursor sitting on the bottom of the screen, the file list
> > > shifted to the right by a space or two, and not able to be opened by
> > > the usual cursor positioning commands, causing 'ding' etc.
> >
> > Dired uses a variable dired-move-to-filename-regexp which matches the
> > date printed by "ls -l".  Probably that regexp fails to match the
> > dates printed by the localized "ls -l".  Frob the regexp to match your
> > dates, and Bob's your uncle.
>
> Indeed, an emacs bug!  And the documentation says it is supposed to match
> the date no matter what localization is present, but we see that it can't
> even handle "Dec" being written as "12" anymore, now that's it's so complex,
> too complex for me to mess with it.  I will send a bug report to gnu.emacs.bug
> [I would crosspost, but that fails sometimes.]
>
> (setenv "LC_TIME" "C");thanks kai.  because dired-move-to-filename-regexp
can't
> handle numerical months now!
>
> (string-match dired-move-to-filename-regexp
> "  drwxr-xr-x    4 jidannijidanni      4096 12  7 06:22 xephem-3.4")
> doesn't match, tisk tisk
>
> > Alternatively, you can tell Emacs to use English/American dates....
>
> yes: one is forced in .emacs to do
> (setenv "LC_TIME" "C");thanks kai.  because dired-move-to-filename-regexp
can't
> handle numerical months now!
>
> now this matches, and dired is OK again:
> (string-match dired-move-to-filename-regexp "
>   drwxr-xr-x    4 jidanni  jidanni      4096 Dec  7 06:22 xephem-3.4")
>
> GNU Emacs 20.7 as found on Mandrake 7.2
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