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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
Cc: 25076@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25076: 24.5; Enhancement request: Make `archive-mode' more Dired like (sorting etc.)
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 12:14:34 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <411373d3-f941-492c-ac17-8d1786ed7c58@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161201195707.GA15995@breton.holly.idiocy.org>

> > Subject line says it all.  `archive-mode' still seems pretty
> > rudimentary.  It would be good to at least be able to sort the
> > lines by file name etc.
> 
> I’m wondering if it wouldn’t be smarter to actually use dired to
> access archives, like how we can use dired to access remote
> directories through tramp.
> 
> I expect this is probably a much bigger/harder job than I imagine,
> but what would be required? Just a function that could produce ls style
> output for archives?

I can't speak to that question.  I suggest that you file a separate
enhancement request for it.  If it turns out that it is trivial then
the two bugs can be merged - I don't have any objection to being
able to use Dired (completely) for archives.

But no, it is not just a question of producing an ls-style listing.
The various Dired operations available currently expect a file as
target.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-01 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-30 18:36 bug#25076: 24.5; Enhancement request: Make `archive-mode' more Dired like (sorting etc.) Drew Adams
2016-12-01 19:57 ` Alan Third
2016-12-01 20:14   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-12-02  7:15     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-02 16:13       ` Drew Adams
2016-12-02 16:19         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-02  8:47   ` Michael Albinus
2022-02-03 20:38     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-03 23:14       ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2022-02-05  6:27         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-05 16:02           ` bug#25076: [External] : " Drew Adams
2016-12-04 18:43 ` bug#25076: One possible solution: dired-avfs Hong Xu
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     [not found] ` <<20161201195707.GA15995@breton.holly.idiocy.org>
     [not found]   ` <<411373d3-f941-492c-ac17-8d1786ed7c58@default>
     [not found]     ` <<83shq6ol7x.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]       ` <<e46970c9-fa6b-4558-b9eb-85bc5f380e83@default>
     [not found]         ` <<83bmwumhgc.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-12-02 16:24           ` bug#25076: 24.5; Enhancement request: Make `archive-mode' more Dired like (sorting etc.) Drew Adams

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