Re: [dired/19.19] bug when acting on multiple long-named files
sandy@ibm550.sissa.it
Mon, 9 May 1994 15:48:22 +0200
>>>>> On Fri, 6 May 1994 14:03:03 +0100,
Jens Petersen <J.Petersen@qmw.ac.uk> said:
> 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?
Yep. I know. It's fixed, along with lots of other things in the next
version. I'm slaving through all outstanding bugs to get the next
version out asap. I had hoped to catch up this weekend, but our
system here went down with hardware troubles Sat. morning, and only
recently came back up. So it goes...
--sandy