Re: dired broken

[Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats@vega.ocn.ne.jp>]

On October 24, 2002 at 11:18AM -0700,
Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org> wrote:

> In emacs20 (testing) dired doesn't work anymore.  If you hit enter, e, or v it
> says "No file on this line."  I've noticed this for perhaps a week,
> and I see there's a bug filed on it (#163762, which speculates the
> update for GNU coreutils is the cause).
> 
> Does anyone have an idea what is causing this, or how to diagnose it?

If you set the LC_TIME (or LC_ALL) environment variable to "C" in
your dotfiles (e.g. ~/.xsession, ~/.bashrc, etc), the problem
will be prevented.

---- 
LANG=en_US
LC_TIME=C
LC_MESSAGES=C
export LANG LC_TIME LC_MESSAGES
---- 

-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita