From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Deniz Dogan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dired without ls? Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:47:36 +0100 Message-ID: References: <83bp2ucuay.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296667320 28848 80.91.229.12 (2 Feb 2011 17:22:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:22:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 02 18:21:55 2011 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 1PkgOp-0004qS-5d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:21:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39022 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PkgOo-0007Hw-37 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:21:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33175 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pkfs9-0000jk-0g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:48:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pkfs7-0003sj-Vl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:48:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-iy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.210.169]:34493) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pkfs5-0003sA-S4; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:47:57 -0500 Original-Received: by iyi20 with SMTP id 20so157895iyi.0 for ; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:47:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bYoWNDR5VrCrvxshTIFEuTkC/de1DKGJ2yrHVvO2cDA=; b=DMzEv9HWb3/LKrA1t6pXegkITLG5FB5GxczwJyiJEB0i1pev8GYnEJgpBWjDEt8kDv sAS+oZfQLzaSfxBI3LyTWefXHQ2Rrx71uuBvzex/adRZKN+N/KOOa3TgH8zOYedlkTli qPBro5GN61+tgqujXbdYJNEZlS7Y6mkkAvvCM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=gqJZljpurHPOeJ3U1BPs81QXb1EgVzUF72pDcuCBoz+Wni+d5WR1zZAqKViYpuLwrd SonVtzWjp+GmEoOzcUaZ+C1JIumbHoop3pf0VI4a8WOKECI2NxNUQUKZzvPRNL1Dgz98 jdrpG89viWQeE40EOjEDEfn/rCS9gYDvzmlCg= Original-Received: by 10.42.171.130 with SMTP id j2mr9835959icz.515.1296665276733; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:47:56 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.231.19.67 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 08:47:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <83bp2ucuay.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.210.169 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:78936 Archived-At: 2011/2/2 Eli Zaretskii : >> From: Deniz Dogan >> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:05:26 +0100 >> >> I've used Emacs on Windows for years now and only recently have I been >> unable to use dired. I get the error that ls is not found. >> >> Did I dream that ls is not required for dired? I'm almost 100 percent >> sure I've used dired on Windows and I've never had ls installed. > > No, you didn't dream. =A0Dired on Windows uses the Lisp emulation of ls, > in ls-lisp.el. > > What does "C-h f insert-directory RET" say regarding where the > function is defined? =A0It should say that it's defined on ls-lisp.el, > if you are on Windows. > insert-directory is a compiled Lisp function in `ls-lisp.el'. I tried with -Q and everything and couldn't get it to work. I filed a bug report on it, but later found that it has already been reported in #7869. Somebody should probably merge those two once my report comes in. --=20 Deniz Dogan