From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Differences between ibuffer and dired Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:34:31 +0200 Message-ID: <871vbmnaxk.fsf@escher.home> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278020107 16837 80.91.229.12 (1 Jul 2010 21:35:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 21:35:07 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 01 23:35:03 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OURPR-00033R-Op for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:35:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33310 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OURPR-0004CH-5h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:35:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50542 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OURPG-00045B-30 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:34:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OURPA-0000Wh-S4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:34:49 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:56855) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OURPA-0000WX-Lp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:34:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OURP5-0002rf-IR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:34:39 +0200 Original-Received: from i59f56e2e.versanet.de ([89.245.110.46]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:34:39 +0200 Original-Received: from stephen.berman by i59f56e2e.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:34:39 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i59f56e2e.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:126657 Archived-At: On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 09:47:30 -0700 "Drew Adams" wrote: > And remember that Dired is _much_ older - That's true: ;;; dired.el --- directory-browsing commands ;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, ;; 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc. [...] ;; Rewritten in 1990/1991 to add tree features, file marking and ;; sorting by Sebastian Kremer . ;; Finished up by rms in 1992. > Ibuffer is only a few years old > (~2007, IIUC). But that isn't: ;;; ibuffer.el --- operate on buffers like dired ;; Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, ;; 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Colin Walters ;; Maintainer: John Paul Wallington ;; Created: 8 Sep 2000 Steve Berman