From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12044: 24.1; ls does not support --dired Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:07:42 +0200 Message-ID: References: <785A137E-5BFE-4775-831E-BD943E9D7F44@Freenet.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343682655 3799 80.91.229.3 (30 Jul 2012 21:10:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:10:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12044@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 30 23:10:54 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SvxEr-0001LN-2p for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:10:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52680 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SvxEp-0002Nj-Sk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:10:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41327) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SvxEn-0002NQ-JO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:10:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SvxEl-0008Fg-Lm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:10:49 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:42135) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SvxEl-0008F1-Ei for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:10:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SvxLm-0003re-8e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:18:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Peter Dyballa Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:18:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12044 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 12044-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12044.134368305514820 (code B ref 12044); Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:18:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12044) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Jul 2012 21:17:35 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51680 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SvxLL-0003qz-FL for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:17:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mout6.freenet.de ([195.4.92.96]:52212) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SvxLI-0003qr-Qv for 12044@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:17:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.4.92.142] (helo=mjail2.freenet.de) by mout6.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID peter_dyballa@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.76 #1) id 1SvxEF-0006TP-SP; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:10:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57586 helo=mjail2.freenet.de) by mjail2.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID peter_dyballa@freenet.de) (Exim 4.76 #1) id 1SvxEF-0003Px-Mc; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:10:15 +0200 Original-Received: from [195.4.92.15] (port=39646 helo=5.mx.freenet.de) by mjail2.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID peter_dyballa@freenet.de) (Exim 4.76 #1) id 1SvxBn-0002pH-UT; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:07:43 +0200 Original-Received: from ip-81-210-160-98.unitymediagroup.de ([81.210.160.98]:50287 helo=[192.168.178.8]) by 5.mx.freenet.de with esmtpsa (ID peter_dyballa@freenet.de) (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (port 587) (Exim 4.76 #1) id 1SvxBn-0003b4-Pd; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:07:43 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:62663 Archived-At: Am 30.07.2012 um 20:53 schrieb Glenn Morris: > Peter Dyballa wrote: >=20 >>> Please give the details of how it "fails to work". >>=20 >> It reports >>=20 >> ls does not support --dired; see `dired-use-ls-dired' for more = details. >=20 > 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 =96 or search for =96= gls, because "unspecified" was reset to nil. Why did it so? What is the = reason for the failure? In GNU Emacs 24.0.50=20 >=20 >> Previously I could simply >>=20 >> (setq dired-use-ls-dired "gls --dired") >=20 > 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 = ";" =96 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.