TRAMP and ls programme

TRAMP and ls programme

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

For dired in GNU Emacs I have:

	(setq insert-directory-program "gls" dired-use-ls-dired t)

for which I can customise:

	 '(dired-listing-switches "-ahlN")

TRAMP 2.1.15-pre uses with the sudo method locally /bin/ls, which  
does not understand -N (although I'm not sure whether it helps to  
make UTF-8 file name appear correctly). Can I convince TRAMP (in GNU  
Emacsen 22.3 and 23.0.60) to use /sw/bin/gls?

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Greetings

   Pete

It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips.
				– Garfield

Re: TRAMP and ls programme

[Michael Albinus]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Hello!

Hi,

> For dired in GNU Emacs I have:
>
> 	(setq insert-directory-program "gls" dired-use-ls-dired t)
>
> for which I can customise:
>
> 	 '(dired-listing-switches "-ahlN")
>
> TRAMP 2.1.15-pre uses with the sudo method locally /bin/ls, which
> does not understand -N (although I'm not sure whether it helps to
> make UTF-8 file name appear correctly). Can I convince TRAMP (in GNU
> Emacsen 22.3 and 23.0.60) to use /sw/bin/gls?

In `tramp-get-ls-command', Tramp checks for "ls" "gnuls" "gls" (in
this order). If you change the order, and if you add "/sw/bin" to the
remote path, it shall work.

Currently it is hardcoded this way. Maybe one could make it
customizable? If you have a patch for Tramp 2.1, we could try to
add it.

Best regards, Michael.