On 7/26/21 8:00 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:

> So I'd have a slight preference for --zero.
> 
> Also what about having --zero imply:
>    --quoting-style=literal --show-control-chars --format=single-column
> That seems like a fine shortcut given that would be correct in the vast 
> majority of cases,
> and that the need for the above may not be obvious to users.
> 
> Also a small point; should --dired disable --null as it may then be non 
> parseable?

Thanks, all good suggestions. For --dired vs --zero I thought it better 
simply to prohibit the combination since neither should be in 'ls' shell 
aliases, and prohibiting means we can add it later if we like. I 
installed the attached patches to do this (plus the other stuff I 
mentioned in my reply to Berny).

The first patch is a cleanup because I had a bit of trouble following 
the forest of 'if's inside of ls.c's decode_switches function and I 
thought it better to avoid unnecessary syscalls while I was at it.

The second patch does the real work.