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Re: dired without -l, wdired fails
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Andreas Röhler |
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Re: dired without -l, wdired fails |
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Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:41:43 +0100 |
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Tim X wrote:
> Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler@online.de> writes:
>
>> Tassilo Horn wrote:
>>> Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler@online.de> writes:
>>>
>> IIRC `dired' basically displays the output of
>> shell-command `ls [options]' in a buffer, afterwards working
>> with, send it back to the shell.
>>
>> From this I never understood this limitation, which looks
>> inconvenient in many respects.
>>
> Noting of course taht there is also a lisp version of 'ls', which
> provides this functionality on non-unix like platforms and provides some
> additional functionality on platforms that do have a shell based 'ls'.
Ah, thanks, remember faintly now... :-)
>
> My guess is that by forcing the -l switch, you get a fairly standard and
> easy to parse output, making the code easier to maintain. Without -l,
> you have to have more code to handle the parsing of the output and
> possibly even more problematic, more code to handle the display and
> movement within that display etc.
Sometimes I like to see just `ls'-output. Would be great if other
dired-functions work than too.
Andreas
>
> Tim
>
>
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- dired without -l, wdired fails, Andreas Roehler, 2010/02/15
- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Tassilo Horn, 2010/02/15
- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Andreas Roehler, 2010/02/15
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- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Tim X, 2010/02/16
- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails,
Andreas Röhler <=
- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Bernardo, 2010/02/17
- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Andreas Röhler, 2010/02/17
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- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Stefan Monnier, 2010/02/17
- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Andreas Röhler, 2010/02/17
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- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Stefan Monnier, 2010/02/17
- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Andreas Röhler, 2010/02/17
- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Tassilo Horn, 2010/02/17
- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Andreas Röhler, 2010/02/18
- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Tim X, 2010/02/17
- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Andreas Röhler, 2010/02/18