GNU bug report logs - #12044
24.1; ls does not support --dired

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>

Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:14:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 24.1

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 12044 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
Cc: 12044 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12044: 24.1; ls does not support --dired
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 19:38:29 -0400

Peter Dyballa wrote:

> In GNU Emacs 23 it works to launch it with -Q and a system ls which
> does not support --dired (but -dired). This fails to work in version
> 24.1.

Please give the details of how it "fails to work".

Note that

ls -dired

is equivalent to

ls -d -i -r -e -d

for any sane implementation of ls, ie not relevant.

> This version is also missing a possibly helpful setting like
>
> 	(setq insert-directory-program "gls" dired-use-ls-dired t)

Not appropriate for Emacs, but very much so for your .emacs.
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