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Date:      Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:27:04 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Noah <admin2@enabled.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: control character file names
Message-ID:  <873agpptkn.fsf@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <4945D461.7070406@enabled.com> (Noah's message of "Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:52:01 -0800")
References:  <4945BF22.7030606@enabled.com> <8763lm189r.fsf@kobe.laptop> <4945D461.7070406@enabled.com>

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On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:52:01 -0800, Noah <admin2@enabled.com> 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.




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