Re: Dired confused by filenames starting with date-like strings

[Miles Bader]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.DE> writes:
> When I do
>
>       (setq dired-use-ls-dired "/sw/bin/gls --dired")

`dired-use-ls-dired' is a boolean, which causes dired to append the
"--dired" option itself.

To tell dired what ls program to use, you have to use a separate
variable, `insert-directory-program'.

So I guess the following should work:

   (setq dired-use-ls-dired t)
   (setq insert-directory-program "/sw/bin/gls")

-Miles

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