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24.0.91; find-dired ignores cdr of find-ls-option

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From: Philipp Haselwarter <philipp.haselwarter <at> gmx.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.0.91; find-dired ignores cdr of find-ls-option
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:27:54 +0100

Setting the cdr of `find-ls-option' does change the output of
`find-dired'. The problem seems to be with `dired-mode'
(cf. find-emacs.gz line 176).

To reproduce:

(progn
  (setq find-ls-option '("-ls" . "-dlbh"))
  (find-file "/tmp")
  (call-interactively 'find-dired))

confirm twice:

"RET" "RET"




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In GNU Emacs 24.0.91.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.8)
 of 2011-11-19 on nzebook.haselwarter.org
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--without-sound' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,--hash-style=gnu''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

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  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
ESC [ > 8 3 ; 4 0 1 0 0 ; 0 c ( p r o g n RET ( s e 
t q SPC f i n d - l s - o p t i o n SPC ' ( " - l s 
" SPC . SPC " - d l b h " ) ) RET ( f i n d - f i l 
e SPC " / t m p " ) ) RET C-p C-e C-b RET ( c a l l 
- i n t e r a c t i v e l y SPC DEL TAB ESC TAB SPC 
' DEL ' f i d DEL n d - d i r e d C-e ) C-x C-e C-j 
- i n a m e SPC ' * * ' C-b C-b f o o RET C-x b * s 
c TAB RET C-n ESC x e m a c s - b u TAB g C-a TAB TAB 
RET

Recent messages:
("emacs" "--no-desktop")
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
"--no-desktop" ignored because the Desktop package is not loaded
Sole completion
(":%s")
find-dired *Find* finished.
Making completion list...

Load-path shadows:
None found.

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-- 
Philipp Haselwarter

Message #8 received at 10262 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Philipp Haselwarter <philipp.haselwarter <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 10262 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10262: 24.0.91; find-dired ignores cdr of find-ls-option
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:43:08 -0500

Philipp Haselwarter wrote:

> Setting the cdr of `find-ls-option' does change the output of
> `find-dired'. The problem seems to be with `dired-mode'
> (cf. find-emacs.gz line 176).
>
> To reproduce:
>
> (progn
>   (setq find-ls-option '("-ls" . "-dlbh"))
>   (find-file "/tmp")
>   (call-interactively 'find-dired))
>
> confirm twice:
>
> "RET" "RET"


I think this is a misunderstanding. You can't just change the cdr of
find-ls-option, you have to change the car as well. find will produce
the file listing using the option specified in the car, then Emacs
switches to dired-mode, with the cdr telling it how to parse the output
of find.

So you probably want to use:

(setq find-ls-option '("-exec ls -dlbh {} +" . "-dlbh"))

Message #11 received at 10262 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philipp Haselwarter <philipp.haselwarter <at> gmx.de>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10262 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10262: 24.0.91; find-dired ignores cdr of find-ls-option
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:44:06 +0100

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Philipp Haselwarter wrote:
>
>> Setting the cdr of `find-ls-option' does change the output of
>> `find-dired'. The problem seems to be with `dired-mode'
>> (cf. find-emacs.gz line 176).
>>
>> To reproduce:
>>
>> (progn
>>   (setq find-ls-option '("-ls" . "-dlbh"))
>>   (find-file "/tmp")
>>   (call-interactively 'find-dired))
>>
>> confirm twice:
>>
>> "RET" "RET"
>
>
> I think this is a misunderstanding. You can't just change the cdr of
> find-ls-option, you have to change the car as well. find will produce
> the file listing using the option specified in the car, then Emacs
> switches to dired-mode, with the cdr telling it how to parse the output
> of find.
>
> So you probably want to use:
>
> (setq find-ls-option '("-exec ls -dlbh {} +" . "-dlbh"))

Thanks, I had a misconception about how much of the parsing was done by
dired, your solution works perfectly! Adding it as an example to the
docstring of `find-ls-option' would certainly clarify things.

-- 
Philipp Haselwarter

Message #16 received at 10262-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 10262-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10262: 24.0.91; find-dired ignores cdr of find-ls-option
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:34:29 -0500

Version: 24.0.93

I changed it to say:

  "A pair of options to produce and parse an `ls -l'-type list from `find'.
This is a cons of two strings (FIND-OPTION . LS-SWITCHES).
FIND-OPTION is the option (or options) passed to `find' to produce
a file listing in the desired format.  LS-SWITCHES is a set of
`ls' switches that tell dired how to parse the output of `find'.

The two options must be set to compatible values.
For example, to use human-readable file sizes with GNU ls:
   \(\"-exec ls -ldh {} +\" . \"-ldh\")

To use GNU find's inbuilt \"-ls\" option to list files:
   \(\"-ls\" . \"-dilsb\")
since GNU find's output has the same format as using GNU ls with
the options \"-dilsb\"."

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