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Re: patch for long options in dired-listing-switches
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Alexander Klimov |
Subject: |
Re: patch for long options in dired-listing-switches |
Date: |
Wed, 8 Jun 2011 12:07:53 +0300 |
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Glenn Morris wrote:
> I wonder if it would be better to change the manual back to what it
> used to be, since basically nowhere in the code is set up to handle
> long options correctly, nor is it documented in the doc-string of
> dired-listing-switches.
It will certainly be easier to implement, but consider the user: the
current version of `C-u s' (dired-sort-toggle-or-edit) asks for
ls switches (must contain -l)
and already makes the user frown upon a program that cannot add `-l'
by itself, imagine that it says
ls switches (must contain -l, no long options)
and thus does not allow to use
--time-style
--group-directories-first
--si
and forces the user to remember the short equivalents for the rest of
them.
By the way, the documentation of dired-listing-switches does not say
that the long options are supported, but it also does not say that
they are not supported.
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Regards,
ASK