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bug#5597: Dired unable to properly recognize file names
From: |
Andy Moreton |
Subject: |
bug#5597: Dired unable to properly recognize file names |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:52:59 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (windows-nt) |
On Sun 18 Sep 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:59:05 +0200
>> Cc: 5597@debbugs.gnu.org, Otto Maddox <ottomaddox@fastmail.fm>
>>
>> Speaking of which, is there any particular reason why dired still uses
>> an external program? If it's because `ls-lisp' is too slow
>
> I don't think it's slow on a Posix system, where the `stat' function
> is highly optimized and very fast. I think the main reasons are
> (a) inertia, and (b) ls-lisp doesn't support all of the switches
> available with GNU `ls'.
On Windows it is useful to be able to run Cygwin ls as a program
to see Cygwin's symlinks and permissions.
AndyM