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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 5597@debbugs.gnu.org, ottomaddox@fastmail.fm
Subject: bug#5597: Dired unable to properly recognize file names
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:10:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mxe1ubs9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3k496cb92.fsf@stories.gnus.org>

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:59:05 +0200
> Cc: 5597@debbugs.gnu.org, Otto Maddox <ottomaddox@fastmail.fm>
> 
> Speaking of which, is there any particular reason why dired still uses
> an external program?  If it's because `ls-lisp' is too slow

I don't think it's slow on a Posix system, where the `stat' function
is highly optimized and very fast.  I think the main reasons are 
(a) inertia, and (b) ls-lisp doesn't support all of the switches
available with GNU `ls'.





  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-18 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-18 15:27 bug#5597: Dired unable to properly recognize file names Otto Maddox
2010-02-19  0:26 ` Glenn Morris
2010-02-19  4:42   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-21  2:30     ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-18 11:59     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-18 15:10       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-09-19 11:52         ` Andy Moreton
2011-09-19 12:47           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-19 16:28             ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-19 16:35               ` Eli Zaretskii

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