Re: dired view not displaying symlinks

[Kevin Rodgers]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> I'm supposed to know this but:
>
> In dired view symlinks have no visual indication that they are
> symlinks. They just appear to be regular files.
>
> I think, in the past I saw an -> etc like is displayed in ls -l.

Are you using insert-directory from files.el or ls-lisp.el?  (C-h f
to find out.)

If from files.el, check dired-listing-switches and
dired-ls-F-marks-symlinks with C-h v.

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Kevin Rodgers