Subject: Re: bug#52384: [External] : bug#52384: 26.3; dired buffer navigation tweak

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 18:59:19 +0200

> From: Arthur Miller <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked],
>   [email-masked]
> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 17:21:56 +0100
> 
> >> I thought so; would it be unrealistic to suggest that Emacs by default switches
> >> to ls-lisp.el on all hosts?
> >
> > Yes.  ls-lisp doesn't support all of the switches that GNU ls
> > supports.
> 
> Yes, I know it does not.. The idea is that it does not need to support
> everything. By default it only uses -la flags anyway. Users who need extra
> ffeatures of gnu ls, has to add extra switches themselves anyway.

When they do add those extra switches, they will complain that those
switches have no effect, whereas they did in previous Emacs versions.