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

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Mats Lidell writes:

 > >>>>> Stephen J Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
 > 
 > Stephen> AFAIK this has been possible for pretty much as long as dired
 > Stephen> has existed, but rejected because users often wish to tune
 > Stephen> the ls output using ls options.  Mike?
 > 
 > Well it should be configured in lisp instead of course ;-) It even
 > doesn't have to look like the ls output at all. I think there is a
 > need for a dired-ng!

What do you have in mind?  Implementing some of the fancy stuff in
Apple's Finder might be cool, but I don't see a *need* personally.