dyoung@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (David Young) (01/06/90)
When you use the -F option to ls in unix you get an additional character
attached to the end of a file's name if it's an executable (the character
is '*') or if it's a directory ('/').
Is there a way to have dired display filenames with these characters
appended to them?
Meaning, dired would display things like:
-rw------- 1 dyoung 127 Nov 30 13:26 .rnsoft
drwxr-xr-x 2 dyoung 512 Nov 16 11:16 News/ <- see the '/'
-rwx------ 1 dyoung 1003 Jan 12 15:21 mumble* <- see the '*'
thanks,
david
dyoung@media-lab.media.mit.edusteveh@abbott.mips.com (Stephen C. Hill) (01/06/90)
>When you use the -F option to ls in unix you get an additional character >attached to the end of a file's name if it's an executable (the character >is '*') or if it's a directory ('/'). > >Is there a way to have dired display filenames with these characters >appended to them? > Do a Meta-X edit-options <return> and then search for ";; dired-listing-switches:". In my default, I have "-al", which are the ls options to be used in dired. Add the F, on a time-by-time basis, or make the setq change in your .emacs file. Steve -- Stephen C. Hill, CDP {ames,prls,pyramid,decwrl}!mips!steveh or steveh@mips.com Integration Products Group MIPS Computer Systems 930 Arques Sunnyvale, CA 94086, (408) 720-2916 Time is Nature's method of keeping us from bumping into ourselves.
tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (01/06/90)
In <34211@mips.mips.COM> steveh@abbott.mips.com (Stephen C. Hill) writes: > Do a Meta-X edit-options <return> and then search for ";; > dired-listing-switches:". In my default, I have "-al", which are > the ls options to be used in dired. Add the F, on a time-by-time > basis, or make the setq change in your .emacs file. Don't do this if you still want to use the other features of dired on anything other than a regular file. That trailing character will screw it up. Dired could perhaps be fixed to accomodate this, but as it stands now it will not give you the results you expect. The documentation string for dired-listing-switches, which will be readily at hand if you do the suggested M-x edit-options, warns against using the -F, -s or -i options to ls. It doesn't explain why there, but here are the main reasons with the currently distributed dired: -F: with -l puts a trailing / on each directory name, a * on each executable and an = on each socket. For the directories everything should still behave normally, but for the executables and sockets everything screws up because dired thinks the filename includes that character. The information provided by -F is already available when -l is enabled, which means two things: a) the -F is unnecessary and b) for those people that really want it, dired could do The Right Thing by checking the other information on the line. -s: This puts the information regarding the size of the file before the file type and mode information, which ends up screwing up the test to see if the line indicates a directory. This could be fixed too. -i: Same as -s, execpt that it shows the inode number. Any public follow-ups should probably go to the bug-emacs/gnu.emacs.bug list. My main concern was further emphasizing here why using -F might not be such a hot idea, in spite of Steve's good intentions. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@cs.rpi.edu" "tale@ai.mit.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))