GNU bug report logs - #41250
28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller <at> live.com>

Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 01:43:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #98 received at 41250 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller <at> live.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 41250 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: Re: bug#41250: 28.0.50;
 Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline
Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 16:37:15 -0700

Arthur Miller <arthur.miller <at> live.com> writes:

> Another question: can I assume, at this time of civilisation
> development, that everybody has GNU ls, since binutils, or coreutils, or
> what is the name, is probably default on most *nix distros, as well as
> on msys2 which is needed to build on Windows. No idea how Mac people are
> doing in that regard though?

MacOS has BSD userland, as does *BSD.

You can install it and use GNU coreutils optionally, but I would expect
only a minority of users to do that.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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