Re: patch for long options in dired-listing-switches

[Glenn Morris]

Alexander Klimov wrote:

> but now (doc/emacs/dired.texi)
>
>  No matter how they are specified, the @code{ls} switches can include
>  short options (that is, single characters) requiring no arguments,
>  and long options (starting with @samp{--}) whose arguments are
>  specified with @samp{=}.

The manual used to say:

  No matter how they are specified, the @code{ls} switches should all be
  short options (that is, single characters) requiring no arguments.

but was changed to the current form 2006-03-31 with a log that just says
"Many cleanups."

I wonder if it would be better to change the manual back to what it used
to be, since basically nowhere in the code is set up to handle long
options correctly, nor is it documented in the doc-string of
dired-listing-switches.


PS It is much better to report these kinds of things on the bug mailing
list; but we are here now.