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* Selection-set editing without VC-dired
@ 2007-12-30 14:36 Eric S. Raymond
  2007-12-30 15:03 ` Miles Bader
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Eric S. Raymond @ 2007-12-30 14:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

(Apologies if this appears as a resend.  I'm having hardware and
Postfix-configuration troubles this morning and I think my first
attempt bounced.)

The selection-set editing commands I proposed in a reply to David
Kastrup would be easy to implement.  However, on reflection, I am
not at all sure doing so would be wise design.

In general, I think it is better to have one UI method that works well
than lots of semi-gratuitous knobs and switches. And I might want to
use C-x v + and C-x v - for something else someday.

So, I'm not outright rejecting the idea of a non-VC-Dired UI for
specifying selection sets. But I think it would be better for
now if I continued to focus on making VC-Dired so fast that
you won't really want or need an alternate set-editing method.  

I expect to capture another substantial speed gain in the
next rewrite.  I'd have done this already, but I've been a
bit distracted by the holiday social round.
--
						>>esr>>

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* Selection-set editing without VC-dired
@ 2007-12-30 14:28 Eric S. Raymond
  2007-12-30 14:40 ` David Kastrup
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Eric S. Raymond @ 2007-12-30 14:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

The selection-set editing commands I proposed in a reply to David
Kastrup would be easy to implement.  However, on reflection, I am
not at all sure doing so would be wise design.

In general, I think it is better to have one UI method that works well
than lots of semi-gratuitous knobs and switches. And I might want to
use C-x v + and C-x v - for something else someday.

So, I'm not outright rejecting the idea of a non-VC-Dired UI for
specifying selection sets. But I think it would be better for
now if I continued to focus on making VC-Dired so fast that
you won't really want or need an alternate set-editing method.  

I expect to capture another substantial speed gain in the
next rewrite.  I'd have done this already, but I've been a
bit distracted by the holiday social round.
--
						>>esr>>

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 13+ messages in thread

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2007-12-30 14:36 Selection-set editing without VC-dired Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-30 15:03 ` Miles Bader
2007-12-30 15:41 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-12-30 23:12 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-12-31  0:49   ` Miles Bader
2007-12-31  1:39     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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2007-12-30 14:28 Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-30 14:40 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-02  2:52   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-02  4:55     ` Bob Rogers
2008-01-03  9:50     ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-03 15:05       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-05  5:55         ` Richard Stallman

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