From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, 4341@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4341: 23.1; M-x locate runs synchronously
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2020 21:47:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9efwuqw.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pn4tv0fz.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Wed, 04 Nov 2020 12:14:08 +0100")
>> Is it possible to avoid using "ls"? If ls formatting is not needed,
>> then the output buffer will look like a Dired buffer with enabled
>> 'dired-hide-details-mode' that shows only file names.
>
> I guess it is possible, I have no clue. It's what we do now.
>
> A downside is that developers would have to keep this in mind when
> working on dired, otherwise things may work only partially or break.
> For example, if you (in current Emacs master) mark files in a *locate*
> output buffer, they get marked and you can act on them, but marked files
> are not highlighted.
>
> OTOH, if we leave the corner case of non-existing files aside for now -
> when we do call ls (what would be the downsides?), we would get a fully
> functional dired support out of the box.
>
> Privately, I have adviced `locate' to insert the list of found files
> into a new dired buffer (by calling `dired' with the explicit list of
> files), and so far I find it better. That is actually already all I can
> contribute so far.
Maybe this would be an improvement. But sorry, I can't help in testing:
while slow `M-x locate' used to be a problem in the past, nowadays it
finishes within 1 sec, so I simply won't notice the difference :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-08 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-04 19:15 bug#4341: 23.1; M-x locate runs synchronously Tom Tromey
2009-09-10 1:17 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-03 17:04 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-03 19:45 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-04 11:14 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-08 19:47 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2020-11-08 20:23 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-15 20:20 ` Juri Linkov
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