insert-directory function in Gnu emacs returns nil

[Ken Brown]

On 5/13/2009 11:45 AM, Marc Girod wrote:
> Unless the problem is in fact with the 1.7 root...
> 
> I have 1.5 installed as c:/cygwin and 1.7 as c:/cygwin2.

I have a similar setup.

I just tried your insert-dired examples in *scratch*, and they work (in 
cygwin-1.7):

(insert-directory "/home/kbrown" "-la")
total 5196
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 kbrown       None       0 May 13 11:10 .
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 kbrown-admin None       0 Mar 14 10:40 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 kbrown       None    3554 Dec 15 09:19 .XWinrc
[...]
-rw-r--r--  1 kbrown       None   38099 May 11 16:09 x-sample2e.pdf
nil
(insert-directory "/tmp" "-la")
total 657
drwxrwxrwt 1 kbrown-admin None      0 May 13 11:57 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 kbrown-admin None      0 Apr 14 11:07 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 kbrown       None     11 May 13 11:02 .X0-lock
[...]
drwxr-xr-x 1 kbrown       None      0 Mar  9 14:11 zztexlive08
nil

>> I've built emacs 23 (still in pre-release 
>> testing) for cygwin-1.7, and it works fine for me except for a minor bug 
>> that's easy to work around:
>>
>> 	http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2009-04/msg00116.html
>>
> 
> Excellent. Of course I wish to try this.

Please let me know if it works for you (apart from possible BLODA 
issues).  So far I've gotten no indication that anyone (including 
Steffen Sledz) has tried it.  It would really be nice to finally have an 
up-to-date emacs package for cygwin.

Ken

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