Dired 7.14 bug: Failure to parse ls output on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

This is a followup to a previous report on this problem.  I never got
any response so I'm not sure if it ever got sent.  I'll paste this one
into my normal mail program to be sure.

Basically, dired in xemacs on Mac OS X 10.5 fails to load most  
directories.  The error
message is "no file on this line".

The cause appears to be a new output format for ls in Mac OS X 10.5
"Leopard".  Here's a sample:

drwx------@   3 poirier  staff      102 Dec  7 06:21 .cups
drwxr-xr-x    3 poirier  staff      102 Nov 30 16:19 .eclipse
-rw-r--r--    1 poirier  staff      110 Dec 12 19:02 .eclipse_keyring
lrwxr-xr-x    1 poirier  staff       25 Dec  1 08:03 .unison -> /Users/ 
poirier/svn/unison
drwx------+   7 poirier  staff      238 Dec 24 12:40 Desktop

Note that many lines have an additional character stuck on the end of
the permissions.  Setting dired-ls-program to point to a little shell
script that ran the output of ls through "cut -c 1-10,12-" fixed it,
which I think confirms the cause.

One way to fix dired was to change the constant value 17 to 18 at two
places around line 2786 of dired.el.  (This is in
dired-manual-move-to-filename).

Unfortunately I don't know if that change would break dired on other
systems.  I suspect that it would.

Please let me know if I can provide additional information to help
diagnose this, or test possible fixes.

Dan Poirier
[email protected]




Emacs  : XEmacs 21.4 (patch 21) "Educational Television" [Lucid] (i386- 
apple-darwin9.1.0, Mule) of Thu Dec 20 2007 on leo.mynet
Package: Dired

current state:
==============
(setq
  dired-version "7.14"
  dired-backup-if-overwrite nil
  dired-chown-program "/etc/chown"
  dired-cleanup-alist '(("tex" ".toc" ".log" ".aux" ".dvi")
                        ("latex" ".toc" ".log" ".aux" ".idx" ".lof"  
".lot" ".glo" ".dvi")
                        ("bibtex" ".blg" ".bbl")
                        ("texinfo" ".cp" ".cps" ".fn" ".fns" ".ky"  
".kys" ".pg" ".pgs" ".tp"
                         ".tps" ".vr" ".vrs")
                        ("patch" ".rej" ".orig") ("backups" "~")
                        ("completion-ignored-extensions" "CM/" "CVS/"  
".o" ".obj" ".elc" "~"
                         ".bin" ".lbin" ".dvi" ".class")
                        )
  dired-compression-method 'gzip
  dired-compression-method-alist '((gzip ".gz" ("gzip") ("gzip" "-d")  
"-f")
                                   (compress ".Z" ("compress" "-f")  
("compress" "-d") "-f")
                                   (pack ".z" ("pack" "-f") ("unpack"))
                                   (compact ".C" ("compact")  
("uncompact"))
                                   (bzip2 ".bz2" ("bzip2") ("bunzip2")  
"-f"))
  dired-copy-preserve-time t
  dired-dwim-target nil
  dired-failed-marker-shell ?!
  dired-filename-re-ext "\\..+\\'"
  dired-find-subdir nil
  dired-gnutar-program nil
  dired-keep-marker-compress t
  dired-keep-marker-copy ?C
  dired-keep-marker-hardlink ?H
  dired-keep-marker-kill ?K
  dired-keep-marker-rename t
  dired-keep-marker-symlink ?S
  dired-keep-marker-uucode ?U
  dired-kept-versions 2
  dired-listing-switches "-al"
  dired-local-variables-file ".dired"
  dired-ls-F-marks-symlinks nil
  dired-ls-locale nil
  dired-ls-program "ls"
  dired-mail-reader 'vm
  dired-mode-line-modified "-%s%s%s-"
  dired-no-confirm nil
  dired-omit-extensions '(".class" ".lbin" ".bin" ".elc" ".obj" ".o"  
"CVS/" "CM/" "~" ".orig"
                          ".rej" ".vrs" ".vr" ".tps" ".tp" ".pgs"  
".pg" ".kys" ".ky" ".fns"
                          ".fn" ".cps" ".cp" ".bbl" ".blg" ".glo"  
".lot" ".lof" ".idx" ".dvi"
                          ".aux" ".log" ".toc")
  dired-omit-files nil
  dired-omit-regexps '("\\`#" "\\`\\.")
  dired-refresh-automatically t
  dired-show-ls-switches nil
  dired-trivial-filenames "\\`\\.\\.?\\'\\|\\`#"
  dired-unshar-program nil
  dired-use-file-transformers t
  dired-verify-modtimes nil
  reporter-version "Your version of reporter is obsolete.  Please  
upgrade."
  )