From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: empty-directory predicate, native implementation Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 22:14:44 +0300 Message-ID: <83blh60wgr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83y2ka18t7.fsf@gnu.org> <87y2kaj799.fsf@gmx.de> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1199"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: arthur.miller@live.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 13 21:19:33 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kSPpc-0000AT-FV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2020 21:19:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60124 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSPpb-0005Zo-Ge for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:19:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35340) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSPkr-0002AE-1c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:14:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41479) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kSPkq-0006sF-3w; Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:14:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3616 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kSPko-0003zc-SQ; Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:14:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87y2kaj799.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Tue, 13 Oct 2020 20:44:18 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:257566 Archived-At: > From: Michael Albinus > Cc: Arthur Miller , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 20:44:18 +0200 > > > As a bonus, we will be able to return the file names we read, not just > > ignore them. > > I agree with your proposal. However, I don't see why it is a bonus to > know which file names have read already, because they are taken in > random order. The order depends on the filesystem. For example, MS-Windows filesystems always report in alphabetic order. > I fail to see how does it help, whether a file name is returned > under the first N matches, or not. Well, it is easy to disregard the names if they aren't needed.