Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp

[Paul Eggert]

Lars Hansen <address@hidden> writes:

> Yes, I now see it is documented with an example in a comment in
> dired-move-to-filename-regexp.
> But doesn't the ".*" make the "[0-9][kKMGTPEZY]?" superfluous?

No, because the "[0-9][kKMGTPEZY]?" forces the date to be preceded by
something that looks like a size.  Without it, there would be more
false matches of dates within file names, e.g., the file name
"foo bar 1 2000 baz" would contain a "date" that looks like "bar 1 2000".