Dear Tassilo,
dear Ellen,
dear Peter,

I am afraid that adding "-dired" to dired-listing-switches did not solve the problem, at least not for current versions of Aquamacs 3 (it looks like an Emacs 24 Mac-specific problem). However, 

(setq dired-use-ls-dired nil)

does (error message gone). There is a caveat about "unusual" file names (e.g. those with leading spaces) in the documentation of dired-use-ls-dired, so maybe this solution is not for everybody.

Warm regards,
Stefan


On 23.07.2012, at 09:00, Tassilo Horn wrote:

> Ellen Taylor < ellen@nospam.invalid > writes:
> 
> Hi!
> 
>>> /bin/ls in Mac OS X 10.6.8 (and maybe more releases) does not
>>> understand "--dired", only "-dired". Is there a way to make dired use
>>> "-dired" instead of "--dired"? (Besides using gls from GNU
>>> Coreutils.)
> 
> The use of "--dired" is hard-coded in `dired-insert-directory'.
> 
>> You need to set 'dired-listing-switches'.
> 
> Dired checks if ls supports --dired.  In Peter's case, it'll determine
> that it's not supported.  So adding "-dired" to `dired-listing-switches'
> should in fact do the job.
> 
> Bye,
> Tassilo
> 
> 

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