From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [NEWBIE] Error - Search for program: no such file or directory, ls Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 10:18:36 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F5CABDC.30907@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063042017 28274 80.91.224.249 (8 Sep 2003 17:26:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:26:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 08 19:27:17 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19wPnJ-0004cs-00 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2003 19:27:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19wPmf-00077K-6e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2003 13:26:37 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1063037914 20287523 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:116433 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:12351 Robert Pollard wrote: > I have the error indicated in the Subject when I execute C-x C-f and try > get a directory listing. The same occurs when I enter dired and try to > get a directory listing. I have an idea of what needs to be done but I > don't know what to do it with. The last time I saw something like this > I had to set a variable to tell it where the executable was. I assume a > variable of some type is not set up correctly. > Whatever it is I would appreciate a pointer in the right direction. > > OS: Mac OS X 10.2.6 > EMacs: 21.3.50.1 See the insert-directory-program variable and the lisp/ls-lisp.el file. -- Kevin Rodgers