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25.0.50; Dired -- add support for ls --time-style with a space

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 18875 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18875: 25.0.50; Dired -- add support for ls --time-style
 with a space
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 17:00:13 +0200

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

> The commit 04f723dec944eaa7b5e99373840a8bf920ba5fdd
> broke my config with the error signaled by insert-directory:
> (error "Listing directory failed but ‘access-file’ worked")
>
> When dired-listing-switches is customized to
> "-Alv --block-size='1"

Hm, well, that's not a valid shell string, is it?

It should be "-Alv --block-size=\"'1\"" or something like that to be
valid...

Hm...  Oh!  The doc string actually documents this (that it's not using
shell quoting).

---
Options that include embedded whitespace must be quoted
like this: "--option=value with spaces"; you can use
‘combine-and-quote-strings’ to produce the correct quoting of
each option.
---

So this was the original answer to this bug report.  I'll revert the
change.

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