From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
To: 5597@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5597: Dired unable to properly recognize file names
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:52:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vz1mxe0vjdw.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1266506823.28042.1360653453@webmail.messagingengine.com>
On Sun 18 Sep 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:59:05 +0200
>> Cc: 5597@debbugs.gnu.org, Otto Maddox <ottomaddox@fastmail.fm>
>>
>> Speaking of which, is there any particular reason why dired still uses
>> an external program? If it's because `ls-lisp' is too slow
>
> I don't think it's slow on a Posix system, where the `stat' function
> is highly optimized and very fast. I think the main reasons are
> (a) inertia, and (b) ls-lisp doesn't support all of the switches
> available with GNU `ls'.
On Windows it is useful to be able to run Cygwin ls as a program
to see Cygwin's symlinks and permissions.
AndyM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-19 11:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-18 15:27 bug#5597: Dired unable to properly recognize file names Otto Maddox
2010-02-19 0:26 ` Glenn Morris
2010-02-19 4:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-21 2:30 ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-18 11:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-18 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-19 11:52 ` Andy Moreton [this message]
2011-09-19 12:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-19 16:28 ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-19 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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