Re: Dired confused by filenames starting with date-like strings

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 24.08.2006 um 00:17 schrieb Miles Bader:

> This works correctly on my system, because dired invokes ls with the
> "--dired" option (a feature of GNU ls, which causes ls to output extra
> information about where the names are located).
>
> The variable `dired-use-ls-dired' controls whether dired does this or
> not.

When I do

        (setq dired-use-ls-dired "/sw/bin/gls --dired")

(with or without "/sw/bin/") and then open a directory in dired-mode,  
my GNU Emacsen 22.0.50 and 23.0.0 tell me:

	Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Listing directory failed but  
`access-file' worked")
          signal(error ("Listing directory failed but `access-file' worked"))
          error("Listing directory failed but `access-file' worked")
          insert-directory("/Users/pete/" "--dired -al" nil t)
          dired-insert-directory("/Users/pete/" "-al" nil nil t)
          dired-readin-insert()
          dired-readin()
          dired-internal-noselect("~/" nil)
          dired-noselect("~/" nil)
          dired("~/" nil)
          call-interactively(dired)

and no listing.

--
Greetings

  Pete

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