Re: emacs dired problem

[Jim Meyering]

Alex Finck <address@hidden> wrote:
> like the person describing this:
> http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-fileutils/2002-March/002479.html
>
> I can't open a file any longer since ls changed its default output.
>
> I tried the -D (specially made for emacs) but it doesn't work. I tried
> a lot of other things as well. I could hack emacs but I find it
> dirty. So what is the solution?

Thanks for the report.
RMS recently (2 July) patched emacs' files.el so that
dired mode can handle GNU ls's --dired option.

Note that currently -D is not recognized.  IMHO, that's
probably best, since short-named options might mean something
else to a non-GNU version of ls.

You didn't say what version of ls or of emacs you're using.
If you find a workaround for your situation, please post a
follow-up message.