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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:21:29 +0300

> From: [email-masked] (Randal L. Schwartz)
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:05:35 -0700
> 
> Manuel> (require 'ls-lisp)
> Manuel> (setq ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program nil)
> 
> Yeah, why isn't this the default?

Because using `ls' is faster, and because `ls' support options that
ls-lisp.el does not.