From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: patch for long options in dired-listing-switches Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:31:41 -0400 Message-ID: <1koc284w4i.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1307518409 28453 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2011 07:33:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 07:33:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alexander Klimov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 08 09:33:25 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QUDGW-0007wc-Q2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:33:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41518 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QUDGW-00014S-0u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:33:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36213) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QUDEv-0000sH-Jj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:31:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QUDEu-0005w8-5a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:31:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:46315) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QUDEt-0005vu-Pe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:31:43 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50418) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QUDEs-0001Cm-4m; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:31:42 -0400 X-Spook: S Box Pine Gap electronic surveillance NASA emc Clinton X-Ran: >kfZ=[71%'$q]$ob\8OBw?Pyo(,yc$j`6kjQ-rA3m$5czKN/&I*Tjs6=B}>NK!']*|"Kyx X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Alexander Klimov's message of "Tue, 31 May 2011 11:07:20 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:140290 Archived-At: Alexander Klimov wrote: > but now (doc/emacs/dired.texi) > > No matter how they are specified, the @code{ls} switches can include > short options (that is, single characters) requiring no arguments, > and long options (starting with @samp{--}) whose arguments are > specified with @samp{=}. The manual used to say: No matter how they are specified, the @code{ls} switches should all be short options (that is, single characters) requiring no arguments. but was changed to the current form 2006-03-31 with a log that just says "Many cleanups." I wonder if it would be better to change the manual back to what it used to be, since basically nowhere in the code is set up to handle long options correctly, nor is it documented in the doc-string of dired-listing-switches. PS It is much better to report these kinds of things on the bug mailing list; but we are here now.