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Re: Dired without ls?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Dired without ls?
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:51:56 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> Did I dream that ls is not required for dired? I'm almost 100 percent
> sure I've used dired on Windows and I've never had ls installed.

Indeed, it's not required.  The ls-lisp.el package included in Emacs
provides the necessary functions to let Dired works without ls.
AFAIK, this is used by default when running on Windows, tho it's
controlled by ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program.


        Stefan


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