Re: patch for long options in dired-listing-switches

[Alexander Klimov <alserkli@inbox.ru>]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Glenn Morris wrote:
> 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.

It will certainly be easier to implement, but consider the user: the
current version of `C-u s' (dired-sort-toggle-or-edit) asks for

 ls switches (must contain -l)

and already makes the user frown upon a program that cannot add `-l'
by itself, imagine that it says

 ls switches (must contain -l, no long options)

and thus does not allow to use

 --time-style
 --group-directories-first
 --si

and forces the user to remember the short equivalents for the rest of
them.

By the way, the documentation of dired-listing-switches does not say
that the long options are supported, but it also does not say that
they are not supported.

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Regards,
ASK