GNU bug report logs - #952
23.0.60; cons DIRNAME arg to `dired' makes it ignore SWITCHES arg

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:30:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 20739

Found in version 25.0.50

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From: Joshua Branson <bransoj <at> hotmail.com>
To: "952 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <952 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#952: 
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:04:25 +0000
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I'm using Parabola GNU/Linux.  My emacs is version 24.5-4.


Have you tried updating to a newer version of Emacs?  The latest stable version of Emacs is 24 (Emacs 25 will soon be released soon).  I'm not a developer of Emacs, but if you are using an outdated version, the developers of Emacs will probably prioritize fixing bugs on newer versions of Emacs.


And don't -lC naturally conflict?  Try running both ls -lC and ls -Cl in a terminal.  In my terminal, it does what the last flag says.  So l -lC displays the output in columns and l -Cl looks just like l -l.


I've done


(dired '("~/" ".bashrc"  ".bash_profile" "-l")  ;; shows the long format


(dired '("~/"  ".bashrc"  ".bash_profile" "-lg")  ;;shows the long format w/o displaying the file owner.


And it worked as expected.


Can you give me a few more examples where dired is ignoring flags?
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