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Re: dired without -l, wdired fails
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Andreas Roehler |
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Re: dired without -l, wdired fails |
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Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:38:58 +0100 |
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Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler@online.de> writes:
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
>> if `dired' is called without the `-l' switch,
>> wdired... no longer works, buffer isn't editable.
>
> Does dired work without -l? At least the docs say it MUST contain -l.
>
> ,----[ C-h v dired-listing-switches RET ]
> | dired-listing-switches is a variable defined in `dired.el'.
> | Its value is "-aDlh"
> |
> | Documentation:
> | Switches passed to `ls' for Dired. MUST contain the `l' option.
> | May contain all other options that don't contradict `-l';
> | may contain even `F', `b', `i' and `s'. See also the variable
> | `dired-ls-F-marks-symlinks' concerning the `F' switch.
> | On systems such as MS-DOS and MS-Windows, which use `ls' emulation in Lisp,
> | some of the `ls' switches are not supported; see the doc string of
> | `insert-directory' in `ls-lisp.el' for more details.
> `----
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>
Hi Tassilo,
you are right. It's a convenience-bug anyway IMO.
IIRC `dired' basically displays the output of
shell-command `ls [options]' in a buffer, afterwards working
with, send it back to the shell.
>From this I never understood this limitation, which looks
inconvenient in many respects.
Thanks
Andreas
- dired without -l, wdired fails, Andreas Roehler, 2010/02/15
- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Tassilo Horn, 2010/02/15
- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails,
Andreas Roehler <=
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- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Tim X, 2010/02/16
- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Andreas Röhler, 2010/02/16
- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Bernardo, 2010/02/17
- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Andreas Röhler, 2010/02/17
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- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Stefan Monnier, 2010/02/17
- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Andreas Röhler, 2010/02/17
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- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Stefan Monnier, 2010/02/17
- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Andreas Röhler, 2010/02/17
- Re: dired without -l, wdired fails, Tassilo Horn, 2010/02/17