mjh@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Mark Hood) (06/25/91)
I've just downloaded the version of Freemacs available on Simtel. It looks like a nice Emacs, but I can't get dired to work the way I expect. ``n'' and ``p'' seem to skip 5 or 6 directory entries at a time and the editor beeps at me when trying to read a file with ``f'' or ``e''. The normal find-file ``^X^F'' mechanism works on those same files. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm running DOS 5.0 on a PS/2 model 80. Thanks! -- Mark Hood mjh@zurich.ai.mit.edu "Wouldn't it be FABULOUS if ZIPMAN was in charge?"
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (06/25/91)
In article <MJH.91Jun24182520@schwyz.ai.mit.edu> mjh@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Mark Hood) writes:
I've just downloaded the version of Freemacs available on Simtel. It looks
like a nice Emacs, but I can't get dired to work the way I expect. ``n''
and ``p'' seem to skip 5 or 6 directory entries at a time and the editor
beeps at me when trying to read a file with ``f'' or ``e''. The normal
find-file ``^X^F'' mechanism works on those same files.
Does anyone have any ideas? I'm running DOS 5.0 on a PS/2 model 80.
I'll bet you that DOS 5.0 changes the output of command.com's DIR. The
current Freemacs dired depends on it being constant. Of course, I
never suspected that foreign language DOSes would change the names,
so dired also fails under them. E.g. French DOS says <REP> instead
of <DIR>.
Freemacs 1.7a will use a 'ls' command for its dired. Don't ask me
when it'll be out -- I'm off for two weeks vacation, at which point
I start a new job, and a month later there'll be another Nelson in
the household... Can you say busy?
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I am leaving the employ of Clarkson as of June 30. Hopefully this email
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