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23.1.90; wdired fails with dired ls -1

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From: Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler <at> online.de>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1.90; wdired fails with dired ls -1
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:23:57 +0100

emacs -q

dired with option `ls -1'

wdired-change-to-wdired-mode
reports error:

wdired-preprocess-symlinks: Search failed: " -> \\(.*\\)$"

Mode-line displays "(Editable Dired...)"
but when I start editing, it's refused saying:

call-interactively: Text is read-only

Thanks all


Andreas

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Suse 10.3

In GNU Emacs 23.1.90.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0)
 of 2009-12-20
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70200000
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Editable Dired

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-u C-x d <backspace> <backspace> 1 <return> <return>
M-x w d i r e d - c h <tab> <return> <up> <up> <right>
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right>
<right> C-d M-x r e p o r r t - <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> r <backspace> t - r <backspace> e m a c
s - b u <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
wdired-preprocess-symlinks: Search failed: " -> \\(.*\\)$"
call-interactively: Text is read-only

Load-path shadows:
None found.

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Message #8 received at 5589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler <at> online.de>
Cc: 5589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5589: 23.1.90; wdired fails with dired ls -1
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:39:22 -0500

> emacs -q

> dired with option `ls -1'

You already have a problem here: dired doesn't work with this.
And indeed dired-listing-switches says clearly that the `l' option
is mandatory.


        Stefan

Message #11 received at 5589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler <at> online.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 5589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5589: 23.1.90; wdired fails with dired ls -1
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:06:16 +0100

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> emacs -q
> 
>> dired with option `ls -1'
> 
> You already have a problem here: dired doesn't work with this.
> And indeed dired-listing-switches says clearly that the `l' option
> is mandatory.
> 
> 
>         Stefan
> 

May the report be treated it as a feature request?

dired-listing-switches says `l' option is mandatory, but that's an inconvenience IMHO.

Encounter many occasions, a shorter display than `l' delivers is helpful. Just faster to look upon, edit etc.

Thanks

Andreas

Message #18 received at 5589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler <at> online.de>
Cc: 5589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5589: 23.1.90; wdired fails with dired ls -1
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:58:42 -0500

> May the report be treated it as a feature request?

As mentioned in an earlier message, there's `dired-virtual' for
such cases.


        Stefan

Message #23 received at 5589-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 5589-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5589: 23.1.90; wdired fails with dired ls -1
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:53:21 -0400

I don't see a need to keep open this particular report, which was marked
"wontfix" some time ago.

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> You already have a problem here: dired doesn't work with this.
> And indeed dired-listing-switches says clearly that the `l' option
> is mandatory.

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