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25.2.50; dired + eshell-ls: fallback to external ls fails

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Message #17 received at 27919 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Tino Calancha <calancha <at> gmail.com>, 27919 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#27919: 25.2.50;
 dired + eshell-ls: fallback to external ls fails
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 17:35:31 -0400

John Wiegley wrote:

>> I think an user who want to set `eshell-ls-use-in-dired' non-nil is likely
>> someone with no external 'ls' installed.
>
> I added eshell-ls-use-in-dired long ago, to support a Windows machine I was
> working on.  At least the bug report now makes much more sense, thank you.

Why is it desirable to use eshell ls with dired instead of ls-lisp?
Maybe it would be better to remove it rather than fix it.
(It usually goes well when I suggest this...)

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