Problem under Windows

[fpopineau]

Using native Windows Emacs, there is a problem at least with v25.x : the directory column does not display any content. By default dired uses its elisp internal version of ls. Unfortunately, this version lists files with only 7 fields instead of the 8 fields reported with an external ls program. If you set

(setq ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program t)

then things are working.

Another way of fixing things is:

 ;; Fix the masks for the elisp internal implementation of ls
  (setq ranger-dired-display-mask '(t t t t t t t)
        ranger-dired-hide-mask '(nil nil nil nil nil nil t))

The proper fix would probably be to parse the lines reported by dired and compute the right number of columns.

[Jonesey13]

Also confirmed as a problem on 24.5 (second column does not display any content)

[punassuming]

Which form of ls are you using with dired? ls-lisp or from the shell?

[duianto]

The first workaround seems to work, it also solved another issue where folder names with spaces in them excluded the first word:

• Blender Foundation was shown as Foundation
• Sublime Text 3 was shown as Text 3.

If i only evaluate the second suggestion: ;; Fix the masks for the elisp internal implementation of ls then the files become visible in the middle column, but the folder names visibility seems strange These are invisible:

• Adobe
• Brackets
• FastStone
• FreeCAD
• GitHub
• Identities
• Inkscape
• etc.

And these are visible. But the first word of (all but one of) the folder names with spaces in them, remains invisible. The missing word is written with parenthesis around it:

• Audacity
• (Blender )Foundation
• copyq
• Electron
• .emacs.d
• (Foxit )Software
• (GeoGebra )5.0
• etc.

Only one folder with spaces in it, shows the full folder name: Sublime Text 3

System Info :computer:

• OS: windows-nt
• Emacs: 25.2.2
• Spacemacs: 0.200.9
• Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. e6927436)
• Graphic display: t
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

  (autohotkey markdown ranger emacs-lisp git github helm org syntax-checking version-control)

• System configuration features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS MODULES

[punassuming]

I am working to try and address this. I was originally planning on using masks to hide particular details in the full dired outut, but because ls-lisp basically only sends out a formatted string, I cannot parse instances where people have modified the default listing switches unless I take that into account as well.

[punassuming]

I reverted my attempt to mask the details in the recent master. Let me know if this helps this issue.

[duianto]

The files and folders are shown as expected now, thanks.