From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Allan Gottlieb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: bug in dired / dired-listing-switches Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:13:02 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283562816 16388 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2010 01:13:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 01:13:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 04 03:13:34 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 1OrhJx-0006GM-2K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:13:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42343 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OrhJw-0000wA-HU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:13:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36520 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OrhJZ-0000w5-2b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:13:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OrhJX-0000J5-Si for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:13:04 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu ([128.122.80.33]:38024) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OrhJX-0000Iv-QA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:13:03 -0400 Original-Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-4a59b202.dyn.optonline.net [74.89.178.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o841D2F5018046 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 21:13:02 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 0D09770058; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 21:13:02 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:74875 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 thanks, allan