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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 18836@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18836: 25.0.50; `insert-directory' barfs on nonexistent file, but not for `ls-lisp-insert-directory'
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 16:56:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760uzp2lo.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7e93777-9e03-4430-8550-6a3fbd5d5ea0@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 25 Oct 2014 12:55:05 -0700 (PDT)")

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> Would it be possible to make vanilla `insert-directory' more tolerant,
> i.e., make it act like `ls-lisp-insert-directory', in this respect?

I have no opinion on that, but: What on Earth is that function (and all
its adjacent functions) doing in files.el?

(insert-directory "." "-l")
=>
drwxrwxr-x 22 larsi larsi 4096 april 30 16:49 .

This doesn't seem like a very ... useful general function.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-30 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-25 19:55 bug#18836: 25.0.50; `insert-directory' barfs on nonexistent file, but not for `ls-lisp-insert-directory' Drew Adams
2016-04-30 14:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-04-30 15:39   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-30 15:46     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-30 15:53       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-30 16:05         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-30 16:20           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-25 14:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-25 16:07   ` bug#18836: [External] : " Drew Adams

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