From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Freenet.DE>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 12044@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12044: 24.1; ls does not support --dired
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:07:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AC192436-DED5-46F9-8A6C-EE06D86389C6@Freenet.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ailii1cc7t.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
Am 30.07.2012 um 20:53 schrieb Glenn Morris:
> Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
>>> Please give the details of how it "fails to work".
>>
>> It reports
>>
>> ls does not support --dired; see `dired-use-ls-dired' for more details.
>
> And when you read the documentation of dired-use-ls-dired, what was
> unclear?
Most. The documentation starts with:
dired-use-ls-dired is a variable defined in `dired.el'.
Its value is nil
Original value was unspecified
So GNU Emacs started with a promising value, "unspecified". It then found that ls is not right, and it then did not find – or search for – gls, because "unspecified" was reset to nil. Why did it so? What is the reason for the failure? In GNU Emacs 24.0.50
>
>> Previously I could simply
>>
>> (setq dired-use-ls-dired "gls --dired")
>
> Why would you do this? It is a boolean option.
Maybe I thought it would teach GNU Emacs to use the right programme. Probably I found this was faulty because the line is commented with a ";" – and no text in my init file. What seemed to have worked once (in GNU Emacs < 24) are these two lines from my site init file:
(setq ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program t)
(setq insert-directory-program "gls")
--
Greetings
Pete
There's something the technicians need to learn from the artists. If it isn't aesthetically pleasing, it's probably wrong.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-25 10:03 bug#12044: 24.1; ls does not support --dired Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <handler.12044.B.134321121124534.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2012-07-25 11:33 ` bug#12044: Acknowledgement (24.1; ls does not support --dired) Peter Dyballa
2012-07-25 11:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-07-29 23:38 ` bug#12044: 24.1; ls does not support --dired Glenn Morris
2012-07-30 18:34 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-07-30 18:53 ` Glenn Morris
2012-07-30 18:58 ` Glenn Morris
2012-07-30 22:02 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-08-06 17:47 ` Glenn Morris
2012-08-08 11:55 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-07-30 21:07 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
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