From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dired and `ls' flags Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:21:11 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87d3sturw8.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87zkvyv7vc.fsf@newsguy.com> <4C8169DC.7050306@ccbr.umn.edu> <55C9DC5564ED4E4BB93F421E97EB3F19@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283636035 14171 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2010 21:33:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 21:33:55 +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 Sep 04 23:33:54 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Os0My-0007EW-S9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:33:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58485 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Os0Ew-0003yn-6P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:25:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41207 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Os0EW-0003yI-EU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:25:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Os0EV-0003oy-Fx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:25:08 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:32794) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Os0EV-0003oo-AN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:25:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Os0ES-0003xx-5c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:25:04 +0200 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:25:04 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:25:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KXNQCEo1VjYl8vi4AlObHrhi34c= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74883 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > And that option is explained front-and-center in the Dired section of the manual > - see the first node, `Dired Enter'. > > That same node also mentions that using a prefix arg with command `dired' > prompts you for the `'ls' switches to use: > > "If you use a numeric prefix argument with the `dired' command, > you can specify the `ls' switches with the minibuffer before > you enter the directory specification." Ahaaa... now that is a useful bit of knowledge... quite handy and needs no extra lisp files.