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Re: dired and `ls' flags
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Erik Iverson |
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Re: dired and `ls' flags |
Date: |
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:34:20 -0500 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090812) |
Harry Putnam wrote:
I've pounded away in the dired section of the manual but haven't
uncovered the technique required to change what the buffer looks like.
I guess its some way of telling emacs to use different `ls' flags.
If user wants to change the display of a directory to something more
like `ls' (no `-l' (no long list))
How is that done?
dired-listing-switches is a variable defined in `dired.el'.
Its value is "-al"
Documentation:
Switches passed to `ls' for Dired. MUST contain the `l' option.
May contain all other options that don't contradict `-l';
may contain even `F', `b', `i' and `s'. See also the variable
`dired-ls-F-marks-symlinks' concerning the `F' switch.
On systems such as MS-DOS and MS-Windows, which use `ls' emulation in Lisp,
some of the `ls' switches are not supported; see the doc string of
`insert-directory' in `ls-lisp.el' for more details.
However, see:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredDetails
for a possibility.