Re: dired without -l, wdired fails

[Andreas Röhler]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> Sometimes I like to see just `ls'-output. Would be great if other
>>>> dired-functions work than too.
>>> Plain "ls" output is difficult to parse reliably (though an appropriate
>>> "ls --dired" would be fine, of course, and a Lisp implementation would
>>> work as well).  OTOH "ls -1" is OK and should to work just fine with
>>> `dired-virtual'.
>> should I make a bug report for the issue?
> 
> I don't see a bug in this thread, but maybe it's because I haven't paid
> enough attention.
> 
> 
>         Stefan
> 


When trying edits in wdired-mode, get an error "Text is read-only" in all cases 
mentioned above,
while mode-line displays "(Editable Dired...)"

Andreas