Re: dired without -l, wdired fails

[Andreas Röhler]

Tim X wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
>>> Setting it to pure `ls' or `ls -1' as Stefan suggested, works fine so far.
>>> It's just, wdired doesn't work then any more.
>> If dired indeed works and wdired doesn't, then we indeed have a bug.
>>
>>
>>         Stefan
>>
> 
> Unless I misunderstand, dired and wdired work fine provided you include
> the -l switch. Without the -l switch, wdired no longer works. 
> 
> As the -l switch is a documented requirement, I don't believe this
> constitutes a bug. 
> 
> However, Andreas would like to be able to use dired/wdired without the
> -l i.e. on a brief and I assume more compact dired/wdired display. Iff
> this is the case, I'd argue its a feature request and not a bug report. 
> 
> Tim
> 

Basically agreed, thanks Tim.

BTW where to direct are feature request to?

Andreas