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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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
Cc: 12044 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12044: 24.1; ls does not support --dired
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:47:31 -0400
Peter Dyballa wrote:

>> Either customize dired-use-ls-dired to nil, to suppress the message and
>> go back to how it used to be, or it seems on your system you can set
>> insert-directory-program to "gls", which is GNU ls I assume.
>
> 	(setq insert-directory-program "gls") 
>
> still seems to do the job – and it silences the report.

As I said. Nothing has changed in this regard.

> But… 'emacs -Q' shows the report

As expected.

> The latter output is from gls, the former from the ls emulation?

I have no idea what you mean, or what the bug is supposed to be here. 
Emulation of ls in lisp is used by default on MS Windows only.
It has no relevance to any other platform unless you explicitly choose
to use it.




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