From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Explorer? Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:08:46 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082139639 25158 80.91.224.253 (16 Apr 2004 18:20:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:20:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 16 20:20:35 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BEXx5-00032C-00 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 20:20:35 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BEXx4-0001KL-00 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 20:20:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BEXw4-0006m6-Kn for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:19:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BEXrP-0004JY-5Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:14:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BEXqo-00042l-IH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:14:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BEXmG-0002Ip-EU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:09:24 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1BEXle-0000OQ-5T; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:08:46 -0400 Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-reply-to: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21784 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21784 Not sure if you just wanted clarification or were being sarcastic. I was serious. I did not understand what feature you meant. Your explanation is clear and now I understand. Just in case it was the former: All I meant was that we could provide headings to the various (ls, for now) columns in Dired, for 1) clarification and 2) manipulation (sorting). If this is already the case for Emacs 21, then ignore. For example: Privileges Links User Group Size Date Modified Name ---------- ----- ---- ----- ---- ------------- ---- -rw-r--r-- 1 dradams svrtech 13525 Apr 6 08:45 shrink-fit.el I guess this could be done with a header line. More importantly, users should be able to click a column heading to sort by that column (alternately ascending/descending) - just as in Windows Explorer. That doesn't sound too hard.