From 34d5ac71df81c0ab347f82b05d2fa2ddd7c0a873 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:28:20 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] ; Recommend GNU Find for 'find-dired' * lisp/find-dired.el (find-dired): Doc fix (bug#73455). (cherry picked from commit 5f8c2d5bf9638c38fdba7eb840d3bc7b252bb687) --- lisp/find-dired.el | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/lisp/find-dired.el b/lisp/find-dired.el index e52adaa9d9f..5b4ee0d70aa 100644 --- a/lisp/find-dired.el +++ b/lisp/find-dired.el @@ -174,6 +174,11 @@ The command run (after changing into DIR) is essentially except that the car of the variable `find-ls-option' specifies what to use in place of \"-ls\" as the final argument. +If your `find' program is not a GNU Find, the columns in the produced +Dired display might fail to align. We recommend to install GNU Find in +those cases (you may need to customize the value of `find-program' if +you do so), which attempts to align the columns. + Collect output in the \"*Find*\" buffer. To kill the job before it finishes, type \\[kill-find]. -- 2.39.5