Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!abbott.mips.com!steveh From: steveh@abbott.mips.com (Stephen C. Hill) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: Dired Keywords: dired Message-ID: <34211@mips.mips.COM> Date: 6 Jan 90 02:21:11 GMT References: <1323@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@mips.COM Distribution: gnu Lines: 23 >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 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.