Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> writes:

> Hello (I am using GNU Emacs 23.1.96.2),
>
> The font-lock regexp on line 198 of bs.el reads:
>
>     '("^..\\(.*Dired by .*\\)$" 1 font-lock-function-name-face)
>
> But if you make the following modification (as I did in my .emacs):
>
>     (setq dired-listing-switches "-lphaX")
>
> Then the font-lock regexp no longer matches since the word "by" is
> replaced by the value of `dired-listing-switches'.
>
> A fix would be to remove the word "by" from the font-lock regexp:
>
>     '("^..\\(.*Dired .*\\)$" 1 font-lock-function-name-face)

To help this along, here is a bzr patch which does this: