Re: dired without -l, wdired fails

[Andreas Röhler]

Tim X wrote:
> Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler@online.de> writes:
> 
>> Tassilo Horn wrote:
>>> Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler@online.de> writes:
>>>
>> 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.
>>
> Noting of course taht there is also a lisp version of 'ls', which
> provides this functionality on non-unix like platforms and provides some
> additional functionality on platforms that do have a shell based 'ls'. 

Ah, thanks, remember faintly now... :-)


> 
> My guess is that by forcing the -l switch, you get a fairly standard and
> easy to parse output, making the code easier to maintain. Without -l,
> you have to have more code to handle the parsing of the output and
> possibly even more problematic, more code to handle the display and
> movement within that display etc. 

Sometimes I like to see just `ls'-output. Would be great if other 
dired-functions work than too.

Andreas

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> Tim
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