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bug#12044: 24.1; ls does not support --dired
From: |
Peter Dyballa |
Subject: |
bug#12044: 24.1; ls does not support --dired |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:07:42 +0200 |
Am 30.07.2012 um 20:53 schrieb Glenn Morris:
> Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
>>> Please give the details of how it "fails to work".
>>
>> It reports
>>
>> ls does not support --dired; see `dired-use-ls-dired' for more details.
>
> And when you read the documentation of dired-use-ls-dired, what was
> unclear?
Most. The documentation starts with:
dired-use-ls-dired is a variable defined in `dired.el'.
Its value is nil
Original value was unspecified
So GNU Emacs started with a promising value, "unspecified". It then found that
ls is not right, and it then did not find – or search for – gls, because
"unspecified" was reset to nil. Why did it so? What is the reason for the
failure? In GNU Emacs 24.0.50
>
>> Previously I could simply
>>
>> (setq dired-use-ls-dired "gls --dired")
>
> Why would you do this? It is a boolean option.
Maybe I thought it would teach GNU Emacs to use the right programme. Probably I
found this was faulty because the line is commented with a ";" – and no text in
my init file. What seemed to have worked once (in GNU Emacs < 24) are these two
lines from my site init file:
(setq ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program t)
(setq insert-directory-program "gls")
--
Greetings
Pete
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