[dired/19.19] bug when acting on multiple long-named files
Jens Petersen (J.Petersen@qmw.ac.uk)
Fri, 6 May 1994 14:03:03 +0100
Hi,
I have dired-7.0.1.9 running over FSF Emacs 19.19 and 19.22 on
several Unix machines.
I noticed this problem on the NeXT computer which has 19.19 (it
*doesn't* occur on the other 2 hosts with 19.22)
There seems to me to be a small bug in dired-7.0.1.9 when run
over 19.19:
Say in a dired buffer you have marked several files that have
names so long that they spill over into the next lines in the
dired buffer.
Then if you now try to act on them (with `C', `D', or `R', etc)
then you will get a error in the minibuffer echo area:
arithmetic error
and no action. The only thing to do then is either to rename them
to shorter filenames! or to act on them individually.
Probably it's easy to fix, but I haven't tried/had time to look
at it ;-) Or is this due to bugs in Emacs 19.19?
Cheers, --Jens