Subject: bug#9039: 24.0.50; dired "f" fails on directory that begins with a space

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:05:47 -0400

Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

> What I'm confused about is if setting the other switch always does the
> right thing (and faster, without forking), why would dired *ever* use
> "ls --dired"?

In the doc of dired-use-ls-dired, I mention that ls-lisp does not
support as many options as GNU ls.