Connected via Tramp to an old remote system, when I list a directory using Dired, I get:
/plink:user@example.com:/tmp:
total used in directory 549 available 114.7 MiB
drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 2048 Mar 24 06:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1024 Sep 12 2011 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Oct 30 1998 lost+found
-rw------- 1 root root 446528 Mar 24 06:59 quota.user
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46909 Mar 14 01:07 zman06938aaa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46909 Mar 21 01:07 zman28862aaa
//DIRED// 69 70 128 130 188 198 256 266 324 336 394 406
According to Tramp’s debug buffer, the command that is executed by Dired is:
/bin/ls --color=never --dired -al /tmp/ 2>/dev/null
It outputs:
total 549
drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 2048 Mar 24 06:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1024 Sep 12 2011 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Oct 30 1998 lost+found
-rw------- 1 root root 446528 Mar 24 06:59 quota.user
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46909 Mar 14 01:07 zman06938aaa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46909 Mar 21 01:07 zman28862aaa
//DIRED// 69 70 128 130 188 198 256 266 324 336 394 406
I assume there is some incompatibility between the output from an old
ls and the current Dired.
Is there any way to get rid of the //DIRED// line at the end?
The problem is that the presence of this line makes navigation in Dired super slow if there are many files in the directory. Moving from line to line can then take more than a second.
