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From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, 29513@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29513: 25.2; find-dired-centinel
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 14:16:09 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47241.80892.736529.23073@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83vahq1agg.fsf@gnu.org>

> > I expect that we do not want to re-invent the shell command find for
> > Emacs.
> 
> We already have, actually: see find-lisp.el.

Interesting, I did not know that.  It seems, though, that the
statement in find-lisp.el

  This is a very generalized form of find.

is not quite accurate.  The power of the shell command find (at
least: the GNU version, which is the only one I know) lies in its
many bells and whistles, whereas find-lisp provides only a subset of
these features.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-01 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-01  0:50 bug#29513: 25.2; find-dired-centinel Roland Winkler
2017-12-01  7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-01 16:28   ` Roland Winkler
2017-12-01 19:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-01 20:05       ` Roland Winkler
2019-06-11 21:15         ` Roland Winkler
2017-12-01  8:09 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-12-01 15:26   ` Drew Adams
2017-12-01 17:48     ` Roland Winkler
2017-12-01 20:04       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-01 20:16         ` Roland Winkler [this message]
2017-12-01 20:27           ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <handler.29513.D29513.156028776529426.notifdone@debbugs.gnu.org>
2019-06-11 22:21   ` Noam Postavsky
2019-06-12  3:25     ` Roland Winkler
2019-06-12 10:35       ` Noam Postavsky

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