From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>,
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
"7546@debbugs.gnu.org" <7546@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#7546: 23.2; [dired] leading spaces in directory names
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:13:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CF97991.6060808@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6iwrnqsd5f.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
On 12/3/2010 5:30 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
>> The difference is probably ls --dired support.
>
> Then I can reiterate my comments from
>
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5597#14
>
> Indeed it fails if one sets dired-use-ls-dired to nil.
>
> That variable is initialized in a funny way, via
>
> (string-match "gnu" system-configuration)
>
> I guess (?) many Mac users do indeed have access to GNU ls, despite
> not having "gnu" in their `system-configuration'.
Wouldn't it make more sense to initialize dired-use-ls-dired based on
system-type? (See the initialization of dired-chown-program, for
instance). Cygwin is another system that has GNU ls but gets
dired-use-ls-dired initialized to nil.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-03 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-03 20:43 bug#7546: 23.2; [dired] leading spaces in directory names Dave Abrahams
2010-12-03 20:56 ` Glenn Morris
2010-12-03 21:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-12-03 22:30 ` Glenn Morris
2010-12-03 23:13 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2010-12-03 23:16 ` Glenn Morris
2010-12-04 3:29 ` Ken Brown
2010-12-04 5:52 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-12-04 22:10 ` Chong Yidong
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