From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Moreton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5597: Dired unable to properly recognize file names Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:52:59 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1266506823.28042.1360653453@webmail.messagingengine.com> <8zaav69ikb.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83mxe1ubs9.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316433273 28338 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2011 11:54:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:54:33 +0000 (UTC) To: 5597@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 19 13:54:29 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R5cQf-0004ok-Cr for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:54:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41785 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R5cQe-0007Zu-Vd for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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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