From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 9039@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9039: 24.0.50; dired "f" fails on directory that begins with a space
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:11:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86vcv6gidv.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1z1uxukqdg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:05:47 -0400")
>>>>> "GM" == Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
GM> Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>> What I'm confused about is if setting the other switch always does the
>> right thing (and faster, without forking), why would dired *ever* use
>> "ls --dired"?
GM> In the doc of dired-use-ls-dired, I mention that ls-lisp does not
GM> support as many options as GNU ls.
So what features of dired break? All I see in the docs for that var is:
dired-use-ls-dired is a variable defined in `dired.el'.
Its value is unspecified
Documentation:
Non-nil means Dired should use "ls --dired".
The special value of `unspecified' means to check explicitly, and
save the result in this variable. This is performed the first
time `dired-insert-directory' is called.
You can customize this variable.
Ahh, in ls-lisp.el, I see
;; RESTRICTIONS ======================================================
;; * A few obscure ls switches are still ignored: see the docstring of
;; `insert-directory'.
;; TO DO =============================================================
;; Complete handling of F switch (if/when possible).
;; FJW: May be able to sort much faster by consing the sort key onto
;; the front of each list element, sorting and then stripping the key
;; off again!
Is that what you're talking about?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-13 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-10 2:21 bug#9039: 24.0.50; dired "f" fails on directory that begins with a space merlyn
2011-07-10 2:33 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-10 2:38 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-07-10 2:42 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-10 2:45 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-10 2:46 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-07-10 3:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-10 3:08 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-07-13 17:57 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-13 18:03 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-07-13 18:05 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-13 18:11 ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2011-07-10 4:43 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-13 10:02 ` Manuel Giraud
2011-07-13 18:05 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-07-13 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
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