From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Where has the rwxr-xr-x gone from dired? Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 11:07:17 +0300 Message-ID: <83bn2yc43u.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466237221 4972 80.91.229.3 (18 Jun 2016 08:07:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 08:07:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 18 10:06:54 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bEBHG-0004T9-VI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2016 10:06:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33544 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bEBHD-0004Xd-2B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2016 04:06:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45445) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bEBGk-0004XW-RQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2016 04:06:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bEBGh-0006U2-Ju for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2016 04:06:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53734) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bEBGh-0006Ty-HL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2016 04:06:15 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1059 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bEBGf-0002D2-He for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2016 04:06:14 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from John Mastro on Fri, 17 Jun 2016 17:54:06 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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 Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110491 Archived-At: > From: John Mastro > Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 17:54:06 -0700 > Cc: Davin Pearson > > (with-eval-after-load 'ls-lisp > (setq ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program t)) > > That's what I do on Windows, using ls from Cygwin. Why from Cygwin? Native Windows ports of ls.exe do exist. > There are a potential issues from mixing a native Windows Emacs > binary with Cygwin binaries, but it's worked well enough for me. With respect to ls.exe specifically, the issues are that you might see access information that doesn't match what Emacs can and cannot access in fact. The Cygwin emulation of Posix access bits works correctly only when all the programs involved are Cygwin programs.