Re: dired and `ls' flags

[Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu>]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> I've pounded away in the dired section of the manual but haven't
> uncovered the technique required to change what the buffer looks like.
> I guess its some way of telling emacs to use different `ls' flags.
> 
> If user wants to change the display of a directory to something more
> like `ls' (no `-l' (no long list))
> How is that done?
> 
> 

dired-listing-switches is a variable defined in `dired.el'.
Its value is "-al"

Documentation:
Switches passed to `ls' for Dired.  MUST contain the `l' option.
May contain all other options that don't contradict `-l';
may contain even `F', `b', `i' and `s'.  See also the variable
`dired-ls-F-marks-symlinks' concerning the `F' switch.
On systems such as MS-DOS and MS-Windows, which use `ls' emulation in Lisp,
some of the `ls' switches are not supported; see the doc string of
`insert-directory' in `ls-lisp.el' for more details.


However, see:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredDetails
for a possibility.