Re: No file on this line in find-name-dired buffer

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Test User <[email protected]> wrote:

> When I run find-name-dired I cannot access the files in the directory
> listing. The message is 'No file on this line'. If I just find the
> directory name, I can open the files, but I want to find-name-dired to
> restrict the number of filenames. The FAQ at
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/efaq/Dir
> ed-claims-that-no-file-is-on-this-line.html
> says that my choices are to:
>
> 1) make `ls -l' return the expected output or
> 2) change the regular expression used by dired,
> directory-listing-before-filename-regexp
>
>
Further research shows that the problem is that the day is missing from
the output of `find -ls'. Fortunately MSYS2 works. Other Windows ports
(GnuWin32, UnixUtils) had the same issue. Still, if someone could show
me how to fix the regex I would really appreciate it.