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Re: ls default time style
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: ls default time style |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Dec 2001 15:55:52 +0200 (IST) |
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > I believe Paul was referring to Dired in Emacs, in which case your advice
> > is hard to follow: Emacs both displays the `ls' output _and_ parses it,
> > to know where the file name begins etc. Since the output is displayed,
> > users want to see it formatted according to the LC_* and LANG variables.
>
> Well, then Emacs dired needs to use some more tricky parsing routines,
> rather than relying on the particular POSIX locale output.
That's what it does now, but the code becomes more and more arcane with
each new release.
> But you cannot deduce how "ls" should behave outside of Emacs, by
> looking at implementation details of the Emacs dired mode.
I didn't say it should, I just tried to explain what Paul had in mind. I
do agree that packages such as Dired should at least be taken into
consideration when discussing these matters.
- Re: ls default time style, (continued)
- Re: ls default time style, Andreas Schwab, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Markus Kuhn, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Andreas Schwab, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Markus Kuhn, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Andreas Schwab, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Paul Eggert, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Paul Eggert, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Paul Eggert, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Bruno Haible, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: ls default time style, Paul Jarc, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Paul Jarc, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Markus Kuhn, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Paul Jarc, 2001/12/11
- Re: ls default time style, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/12
- Re: ls default time style, Paul Jarc, 2001/12/12
- Re: ls default time style, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/12
- Re: ls default time style, Paul Jarc, 2001/12/12
- Re: ls default time style, Paul Eggert, 2001/12/11