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: [feature/internal-msys] thoughts of a more function windows package Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:24:12 +0200 Message-ID: <83k0s12g6b.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pn2dq3xv.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83ft39hnk1.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7nppzjy.fsf@russet.org.uk> <838s90hhb6.fsf@gnu.org> <87zh1gircl.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83turofw8r.fsf@gnu.org> <87sg6v76fd.fsf_-_@russet.org.uk> <83czxy7530.fsf@gnu.org> <87zh12grzh.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83wnw659kw.fsf@gnu.org> <87o8higedm.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83sg6t5t86.fsf@gnu.org> <87bldh7xue.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83bldg6h0o.fsf@gnu.org> <87a6sygf0s.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87a6sydjvw.fsf@telefonica.net> <871re9nc3e.fsf@russet.org.uk> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2938"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Phillip Lord Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 25 16:24:48 2021 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 1l43jT-0000eK-PV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 16:24:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43430 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l43jS-00028R-Re for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 10:24:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53200) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l43in-0001XU-V2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 10:24:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52455) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l43in-00041M-1q; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 10:24:05 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2489 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l43il-0001gH-Uq; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 10:24:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: <871re9nc3e.fsf@russet.org.uk> (message from Phillip Lord on Sun, 24 Jan 2021 23:34:29 +0000) 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:263390 Archived-At: > From: Phillip Lord > Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 23:34:29 +0000 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Oh, I'm a find junkie. Me too. Which is why I ported Findutils long ago (the available ports were abysmally slow). I have an updatedb job running every week until this day. > >> ls, > > > > Is it necessary? > > Not sure. I thought dired used it, at least if it's there but maybe not. I do use ls, regardless of Dired (which doesn't need it on Windows). That's about the only Coreutils program I ported myself; for the rest I use an old GnuWin32 port, which is quite adequate -- ls was the single exception.