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Re: ls default time style
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: ls default time style |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:24:09 +0200 (IST) |
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Paul Jarc wrote:
> > Calling ls TWICE? Why does Emacs have to call "ls" AT ALL?
>
> Duplicating ls's formatting code could be considered wasteful. Maybe
> a shared library is in order.
>
> > Why not use the relevant POSIX.1 API calls for reading directories?
>
> That's what I was suggesting with directory-files and file-attributes
> (the Elisp bindings for readdir and stat, nearly).
Emacs already has all that; see ls-lisp.el. It is used on systems
where `ls' isn't a standard program.
However, I don't really see how this can help solve the Dired
problems. ls-lisp simply calls functions which end up calling the
same strftime which `ls' calls for its thing. So you have the same
issues as with `ls's output.
- Re: ls default time style, (continued)
- Re: ls default time style, Paul Eggert, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Paul Eggert, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Bruno Haible, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Paul Jarc, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Paul Jarc, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Markus Kuhn, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Paul Jarc, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: ls default time style, Paul Jarc, 2001/12/12
- Re: ls default time style, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/12
- Re: ls default time style, Paul Jarc, 2001/12/12
- Re: ls default time style, Paul Eggert, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Bruno Haible, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Paul Eggert, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Andreas Schwab, 2001/12/12