Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp

[Luc Teirlinck]

>From my previous message:

   Note that "i" does not seem to work very well, _even_ if
   default-directory is "/".  It somehow did not list "goodCVS" and 
   "VCS".  This is strange.  But I am not desperate to use "i" in
   *Locate* buffers.

I understand the problem now, but I am not sure what the best solution
is.  I do not know how important 'i' is in locate buffers.  I only
tried it to see if it worked with default-directory set to something
else than "/".

locate-mode contains:

  (make-local-variable 'dired-actual-switches)
  (setq dired-actual-switches "")

but I believe that a lot of code (`insert-directory' at the very least)
assumes dired-actual-switches to contain at least "-l".

[bash2.05b.0 ~ 3 2] ls -l --dired compdir
  total 20
  -rw-rw-r--    1 teirllm  teirllm        14 Apr 11 21:13 blabla
  -rw-rw-r--    1 teirllm  teirllm         8 Apr 11 21:13 blabla~
  drwxrwxr-x    2 teirllm  teirllm      4096 Apr  5 21:42 gogoCVS
  drwxrwxr-x    2 teirllm  teirllm      4096 Apr  5 21:42 goodCVS
  drwxrwxr-x    2 teirllm  teirllm      4096 Apr  5 21:42 VCS
//DIRED// 69 75 134 141 200 207 266 273 332 335
//DIRED-OPTIONS// --quoting-style=(null)

When called from dired, insert-directory assumes those two last lines
are present and erases them.  But "--dired" only produces those two
lines if "-l" is also present.  Thus, in the case of locate.el, these
two lines are not there.  `insert-directory' erases the last two lines
anyway.  If the directory contains at least two lines, two lines will
be missing.  If not, we get an end-of-buffer error.

Sincerely,

Luc.