Subject: Re: bug#5589: 23.1.90; wdired fails with dired ls -1

From: Andreas Roehler <[email-masked]>
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