Re: Dired confused by filenames starting with date-like strings

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> Am 24.08.2006 um 00:17 schrieb Miles Bader:
> 
>> This works correctly on my system, because dired invokes ls with the
>> "--dired" option (a feature of GNU ls, which causes ls to output extra
>> information about where the names are located).
>>
>> The variable `dired-use-ls-dired' controls whether dired does this or
>> not.
> 
> When I do
> 
>     (setq dired-use-ls-dired "/sw/bin/gls --dired")
> 
> (with or without "/sw/bin/") and then open a directory in dired-mode, my 
> GNU Emacsen 22.0.50 and 23.0.0 tell me:
> 
>     Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Listing directory failed but 
> `access-file' worked")
>       signal(error ("Listing directory failed but `access-file' worked"))
>       error("Listing directory failed but `access-file' worked")
>       insert-directory("/Users/pete/" "--dired -al" nil t)
>       dired-insert-directory("/Users/pete/" "-al" nil nil t)
>       dired-readin-insert()
>       dired-readin()
>       dired-internal-noselect("~/" nil)
>       dired-noselect("~/" nil)
>       dired("~/" nil)
>       call-interactively(dired)
> 
> and no listing.

There is no reason to set dired-use-ls-dired to anything but t or nil.
In particular, it does not determine which ls program is run.  Try:

(setq insert-directory-program "/sw/bin/ls"
       dired-use-ls-dired t)

-- 
Kevin