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Improve discoverability of 'insert-directory-program'

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* lisp/files.el (insert-directory-program): Mention 'dired' in the
doc string.
* lisp/dired.el (dired): Mention 'insert-directory-program' in the
doc string.  (Bug#54962)
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Eli Zaretskii 2022-04-15 23:03:15 +03:00
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lisp/dired.el
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@ -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).

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lisp/files.el
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@ -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.