Re: Dired subdirectories & the ls option time-style with the %R sequence

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 23:41:37 +0700
> Cc: Gautier Ponsinet <gautier@gautierponsinet.xyz>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On Wed, 24 May 2023 at 18:36, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >     Gautier> Maybe `dired-insert-subdir' could search for "R" but exclude 
> > "%R"?
> >
> > Something like the following (untested) patch?
> >
> > -    (if (setq switches-have-R (and switches (string-match-p "R" switches)))
> > +    (if (setq switches-have-R (and switches (string-match-p "[^%]R" 
> > switches)))
> 
> This looks like a kludge. Will any occurrences of ‘R’ also be
> discarded in values for options such as ‘--hide’, ‘-I’|‘--ignore’, and
> any new options introduced later that take an arbitrary user-supplied
> string?
> 
> Also, will a ‘--recursive’ affect ‘dired-insert-subdir’ in the same
> way that removing ‘R’ is designed to prevent?

We sometimes install kludgey solutions if no better ideas are
available.  Do you have better ideas for fixing this?

Thanks.