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26.3; dired buffer navigation tweak

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From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller <at> live.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: amperry <at> provide.net, 52384 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefan <at> marxist.se, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: bug#52384: [External] : bug#52384: 26.3; dired buffer navigation tweak
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 18:11:40 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller <at> live.com>
>> Cc: juri <at> linkov.net,  52384 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  stefan <at> marxist.se,
>>   amperry <at> provide.net
>> 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.

Ok I guess further commenting would regress into the usual old  "better
defaults" discussion, so let's rather not.

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