From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: bug in dired / dired-listing-switches Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 18:31:59 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283564022 19339 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2010 01:33:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 01:33:42 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Allan Gottlieb'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 04 03:33:41 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 1OrhdR-0004ID-RS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:33:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54819 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OrhdR-0003iY-7A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:33:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50097 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Orhd2-0003iB-OJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:33:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Orhd1-0001wc-8o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:33:12 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:41242) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Orhd1-0001wX-1k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:33:11 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet13.oracle.com (rcsinet13.oracle.com [148.87.113.125]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o841X7bZ028873 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 4 Sep 2010 01:33:09 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt355.oracle.com (acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155]) by rcsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o841X7qq020490; Sat, 4 Sep 2010 01:33:07 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt013.oracle.com by acsmt353.oracle.com with ESMTP id 562446661283563923; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:32:03 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.217.86) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:32:02 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: ActLzl+iTfgj8pLLQHurDX9QAwdsiwAAhLdg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5931 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:74876 Archived-At: > I tried to experiment with --group-directories-first > > I set dired-listing-switches to > "--group-directories-first -gGh" > > This "works" but shows the following strange behavior > > Although hitting s in the dired buffer correctly switches > the sorting between "by name" and "by date", the mode line > always says "by date". > > I was going to "report-emacs-bug" but wondered if my setting of dired > listing switches is invalid. For one thing it doesn't contain -l (-g > essentially gives that). Should I be filing a bug? > This behavior occurs with emacs -Q The doc string of `dired-listing-switches' says that you must include `-l' - as you probably read. So all bets are off if you do not do that. But especially if it "works" anyway, I would say file a bug report. The Emacs developers will clarify whether it is in fact a bug, and will perhaps tweak the product or the doc based on the details you report, in the interest of clarity. Use `M-x send-emacs-bug-report', and start from `emacs -Q'.