Subject: bug#23373: 25.0.93; dired-mark-sexp misinterprets file sizes if dired-listing-switches contains --block-size='1

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:41:35 -0700

Jorge Morais <[email-masked]> writes:

> --block-size='1 is very convenient for human interpretation of large
> file sizes, so it would be nice if Dired supported it.  If you cannot
> support it, perhaps you should document this incompatibility in the
> docstring of dired-listing-switches, and perhaps also in
> [[info:emacs#Dired%20Enter][info:emacs#Dired Enter]].

I use:

   (setq dired-listing-switches "-alh")

Would that solve your use-case?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas