From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 15 12:00:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E114E10656A4 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:00:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D7958FC18 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:00:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl75-59.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.122.59]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id mBFBxgs2031438 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:59:47 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mBFBxgTS005054; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:59:42 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id mBFBxfPS005045; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:59:41 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Noah In-Reply-To: <4945D461.7070406@enabled.com> (Noah's message of "Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:52:01 -0800") Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:27:04 +0200 Message-ID: <873agpptkn.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <4945BF22.7030606@enabled.com> <8763lm189r.fsf@kobe.laptop> <4945D461.7070406@enabled.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MailScanner-ID: mBFBxgs2031438 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.861, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.54, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: control character file names X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:00:03 -0000 On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:52:01 -0800, Noah 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.