Re: [Bug: 21.5-b28] XEmacs dired didn't work with FreeBSD ls

It's me FKtPp ;) writes: > Maybe it's a FreeBSD bug -_-! > > I diged a little deeper, and findout that the 'ls -l' output something > wrong. At least it didn't work as the manual pages described. It's a doc bug, I think. They've simply forgotten to tell your about the effect of locale on ls output. Unfortunately, people seem to think that it's a good idea to localize command-line utilities. This is really dumb, because anybody who doesn't know what "Sep" stands for is probably not using ls in the first place. Ie, my guess is that you have your locale set to something other than one of the locales dired groks.

Try starting XEmacs with LANG=C xemacs; I bet that will work a lot better. If you want minimal impact on your XEmacs language environment, you could try putting `(setenv "LC_TIME" "C")' in your init file.