Re: dired without -l, wdired fails

[Andreas Röhler]

Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
> 
>> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>>> If dired indeed works and wdired doesn't, then we indeed have a bug.
>>>> OK, filed as M-x report-emacs-bug suggested:
>>> AFAIK, dired does not work in your context, so that wouldn't be a bug.
>> Output of dired with dired-listing-switch `1' as you suggested was
>> fine.
> 
> I tried to reproduce that here (with emacs -Q), but if I remove the -l
> and use nothing or plain -1, then the dired output is *not* ok (all
> files except the last are indented a bit, and the last's first char has
> `dired-mark' face),

Well, was happy with that so far already. With long filenames, the output from 
`-l'
switch is hardly readable sometimes.

Seems you are perfectly right.

 and no dired commands work anymore.

Didn't check that, stopped at the wdired-issue.


I cannot
> operate on any file, I always get
> 
>   dired-get-file-for-visit: No file on this line
> 
>> Just the docu contradicts, requiring the `-l' switch. Only wdired-
>> failed. Think it's extentable at this point.
> 
> Are you really sure that all or at least most dired commands work
> without -l?

Not at all.

Thanks for you attention.

Andreas
> 
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>