Pete,

I can't say I follow all of this, but I don't think I have GNU installed and
as I understand it, I need this for this line of code to work.

Thanks for your help, maybe I will just live with it.

Graham

On 26/01/07, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> wrote:
>
>
> Am 26.01.2007 um 21:41 schrieb Graham Smith:
>
> > Thanks, be fine and I have added this line to my .emacs , but it
> > has made no difference.
> >
> > Is the "locale" in the code the actual text or am I meant to
> > replace with a regional name eg "european"
>
> I remember a time on MS DOS or MS Windows where a shell interpreter
> was available, command.com, in its own window (or terminal). Maybe
> you have a similiar thing by hand. It should work to invoke 'ls --
> help' to see what the ls command understands. The GNU ls command I
> use in my Emacsen on Mac OS X tells me (usually in German, because I
> have the environment variable LANG set to some German value) that it
> accepts:
>
>    -a, --all                  do not ignore entries starting with .
>    -A, --almost-all           do not list implied . and ..
>    -B, --ignore-backups       do not list implied entries ending with ~
>    -D, --dired                generate output designed for Emacs'
> dired mode
>    -h, --human-readable       with -l, print sizes in human readable
> format
>                                 (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)
>        --si                   likewise, but use powers of 1000 not 1024
>    -l                         use a long listing format
>        --time-style=STYLE     with -l, show times using style STYLE:
>                               full-iso, long-iso, iso, locale, +FORMAT.
>                               FORMAT is interpreted like `date'; if
> FORMAT is
>                               FORMAT1<newline>FORMAT2, FORMAT1
> applies to
>                               non-recent files and FORMAT2 to recent
> files;
>                               if STYLE is prefixed with `posix-', STYLE
>                               takes effect only outside the POSIX locale
>
> And I tried exactly
>
>           '(dired-listing-switches "-alD --time-style=locale")
>
> in an UK based environment and it worked. 'ls --version' returns for
> me as first line
>
>         ls (GNU coreutils) 5.96
>
>
> If you do not have GNU ls available, then GNU Emacs uses some ls
> emulation. This one cannot be switched to display the date in some
> 'local' format.
>
>
> I have one (actually two) more thing(s) set:
>
>         (setq insert-directory-program "gls" dired-use-ls-dired t)
>
> This tells GNU Emacs to use GNU ls instead of a built-in or system ls
> command:
>
>         insert-directory-program is a variable defined in `files.el'.
>
>         Documentation:
>         Absolute or relative name of the `ls' program used by `insert-
> directory'.
>
>
>         dired-use-ls-dired is a variable defined in `dired.el'.
>
>         Documentation:
>         Non-nil means Dired should use `ls --dired'.
>
> Could be they are accessible via customisation ...
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>    Pete
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