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| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/dired.el | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/files.el | 4 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/dired.el b/lisp/dired.el index a3768d224b4..f5ddd7aa39f 100644 --- a/lisp/dired.el +++ b/lisp/dired.el @@ -994,8 +994,11 @@ If a directory or nothing is found at point, return nil." ;;;###autoload (defun dired (dirname &optional switches) "\"Edit\" directory DIRNAME--delete, rename, print, etc. some files in it. -Optional second argument SWITCHES specifies the `ls' options used. -\(Interactively, use a prefix argument to be able to specify SWITCHES.) +Optional second argument SWITCHES specifies the options to be used +when invoking `insert-directory-program', usually `ls', which produces +the listing of the directory files and their attributes. +Interactively, a prefix argument will cause the command to prompt +for SWITCHES. If DIRNAME is a string, Dired displays a list of files in DIRNAME (which may also have shell wildcards appended to select certain files). diff --git a/lisp/files.el b/lisp/files.el index 5fa38e46af0..d8e7989672a 100644 --- a/lisp/files.el +++ b/lisp/files.el @@ -7236,7 +7236,9 @@ need to be passed verbatim to shell commands." (defvar insert-directory-program (purecopy "ls") - "Absolute or relative name of the `ls' program used by `insert-directory'.") + "Absolute or relative name of the `ls'-like program. +This is used by `insert-directory' and `dired-insert-directory' +\(thus, also by `dired').") (defcustom directory-free-space-program (purecopy "df") "Program to get the amount of free space on a file system. |