Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:18:56 -0800 From: Noah <admin2@enabled.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Renaming files with strange characters in dired-mode [was: Re: control character file names] Message-ID: <49466750.7060704@enabled.com> In-Reply-To: <87wse17crl.fsf_-_@kobe.laptop> References: <4945BF22.7030606@enabled.com> <8763lm189r.fsf@kobe.laptop> <4945D461.7070406@enabled.com> <873agpptkn.fsf@kobe.laptop> <494662A6.3050001@enabled.com> <87wse17crl.fsf_-_@kobe.laptop>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:59:02 -0800, Noah <admin2@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:
noah@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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