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authorChong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>2010-02-21 16:12:46 -0500
committerChong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>2010-02-21 16:12:46 -0500
commit50c58e2725507648d8d58ec6b2415e7f6d34862d (patch)
treed762e301f3cbf26e390a7e5ce80c020f30b7879a
parentb660eb70f1e73146a769f81530ea262e90179d7b (diff)
downloademacs-50c58e2725507648d8d58ec6b2415e7f6d34862d.tar.gz
* files.el (directory-listing-before-filename-regexp): Use
stricter matching for iso-style dates, to avoid false matches with date-like filenames (Bug#5597).
-rw-r--r--lisp/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--lisp/files.el13
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 40683a9c769..c33598f6e24 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
2010-02-21 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
+ * files.el (directory-listing-before-filename-regexp): Use
+ stricter matching for iso-style dates, to avoid false matches with
+ date-like filenames (Bug#5597).
+
* htmlfontify.el (htmlfontify): Doc fix.
* eshell/eshell.el (eshell): Doc fix.
diff --git a/lisp/files.el b/lisp/files.el
index 41cddcd4f62..ee03c115cf8 100644
--- a/lisp/files.el
+++ b/lisp/files.el
@@ -5592,8 +5592,10 @@ program specified by `directory-free-space-program' if that is non-nil."
;; -r--r--r-- 1 may 1997 1168 Oct 19 16:49 README
;; The "[BkKMGTPEZY]?" below supports "ls -alh" output.
- ;; The ".*" below finds the last match if there are multiple matches.
- ;; This avoids recognizing `jservice 10 1024' as a date in the line:
+
+ ;; For non-iso date formats, we add the ".*" in order to find
+ ;; the last possible match. This avoids recognizing
+ ;; `jservice 10 1024' as a date in the line:
;; drwxr-xr-x 3 jservice 10 1024 Jul 2 1997 esg-host
;; vc dired listings provide the state or blanks between file
@@ -5601,9 +5603,10 @@ program specified by `directory-free-space-program' if that is non-nil."
;; parantheses:
;; -rw-r--r-- (modified) 2005-10-22 21:25 files.el
;; This is not supported yet.
- (purecopy (concat ".*[0-9][BkKMGTPEZY]?" s
- "\\(" western "\\|" western-comma "\\|" east-asian "\\|" iso "\\)"
- s "+")))
+ (purecopy (concat "\\([0-9][BkKMGTPEZY]? " iso
+ "\\|.*[0-9][BkKMGTPEZY]? "
+ "\\(" western "\\|" western-comma "\\|" east-asian "\\)"
+ "\\) +")))
"Regular expression to match up to the file name in a directory listing.
The default value is designed to recognize dates and times
regardless of the language.")