From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dired view not displaying symlinks Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 13:22:37 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87bqxrkt5a.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138835077 12201 80.91.229.2 (1 Feb 2006 23:04:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 23:04:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 02 00:04:36 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4Qyn-0006nr-4e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:01:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4R1r-0001PB-Hl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:04:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4Ova-0005xU-LD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:50:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4OvY-0005wJ-Om for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:50:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4OZH-0003lm-23 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:27:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1F4OXy-00075n-Up for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:25:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1F4OVv-00038w-Ju for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:23:40 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:23:39 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:23:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <87bqxrkt5a.fsf@newsguy.com> 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:32956 Archived-At: Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm supposed to know this but: > > In dired view symlinks have no visual indication that they are > symlinks. They just appear to be regular files. > > I think, in the past I saw an -> etc like is displayed in ls -l. Are you using insert-directory from files.el or ls-lisp.el? (C-h f to find out.) If from files.el, check dired-listing-switches and dired-ls-F-marks-symlinks with C-h v. -- Kevin Rodgers