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GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 show stopper bug: find-dired

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Xah Lee

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Apr 28, 2012, 10:54:23 PM4/28/12
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GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 show stopper bug: find-dired

this seems to be a showstopper bug.

• start emacs 「runemacs.exe -Q」
• 【M-x find-dired】
• 「-name "*html"」
• expected result: list of files in dired.

Here's what i got:
--------------------------------------------
c:/Users/h3/web/xahlee_org/comp/:
find . "(" -name "*html" ")" -exec ls -ld {} ";"
Access denied - .
File not found - -NAME

---------- AMPERSAND_HTML_ENTITIES_UNICODE_SEMANTICS.HTML
…
---------- APPLE_IPAD_CENSORSHIP.HTML
…
---------- ASPELL_SPELL_CHECKING.HTML
…
---------- ASPELL_VOCABULARY.HTML
…
---------- BLOG.HTML
…
---------- YOUR_REGEX_BRAIN.HTML
…


File not found - )
File not found - -EXEC
File not found - LS
File not found - -LD
File not found - {}
File not found - ;

find finished at Sat Apr 28 19:46:27
--------------------------------------------

each of the 「…」 is about n lines of file content. The n can be 4 to 10
or more. Not sure what's the pattern.

Also, my file names are mostly lowercase. Don't know why it is CAPS
there.

GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2012-04-23 on MARVIN
ErgoEmacs distribution 1.9.4

Windows 7.

Xah

Yuri Khan

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Apr 29, 2012, 1:31:51 AM4/29/12
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On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 09:54, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's what i got:
> --------------------------------------------
>  c:/Users/h3/web/xahlee_org/comp/:
>  find . "(" -name "*html" ")" -exec ls -ld {} ";"
>  Access denied - .
>  File not found - -NAME
>
>  ---------- AMPERSAND_HTML_ENTITIES_UNICODE_SEMANTICS.HTML
>  …
> Windows 7.

The output format (including all caps) suggests that the Windows
find.exe is invoked, instead of POSIX find. The Windows find.exe is
functionally analogous to grep -F, i.e. find a literal string in
files.

Xah Lee

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Apr 29, 2012, 4:51:51 AM4/29/12
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Hi Yuri and all, thanks for the info as my earlier reply.

although there's some problem here i think may be related to this...
I'll post a separate thread.

Xah

Xah Lee

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Apr 29, 2012, 4:41:07 AM4/29/12
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On Apr 28, 10:31 pm, Yuri Khan <yurivk...@gmail.com> wrote:
Darn. You are right. Same thing happened with emacs 23 -Q.

Thanks a lot Yuri, and for many helpful comments on my site.

Xah
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