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Re: dired doesn't work properly with a multibyte locale


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: dired doesn't work properly with a multibyte locale
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 21:13:26 +0200

> From: Michael Livshin <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 20:45:11 +0200
> 
> I'm sorry for possibly asking a stupid question, but why does dired
> use `ls' *at* *all*?
> 
> it looks like all the needed primitives are there in Emacs.

If you mean that ls-lisp.el should be used on all platforms, not only
on those where `ls' might not be installed, then I think the reason
is ls-lisp is slower.

Also, some of the `ls' options are not yet emulated by ls-lisp.




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