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: ! in Dired--what was the outcome? Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:04:31 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200409220205.i8M25YO10544@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200410040243.i942hjs11102@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096999517 1400 80.91.229.6 (5 Oct 2004 18:05:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 18:05:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 05 20:05:14 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CEtgY-0002jV-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 20:05:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CEtnC-0007mr-EO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:12:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CEtmo-0007ee-H8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:11:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CEtmm-0007eF-N2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:11:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CEtmm-0007dz-3C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:11:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CEtfs-0001Sn-4M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:04:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CEtfr-0003Qb-Le; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:04:31 -0400 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200410040243.i942hjs11102@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sun, 3 Oct 2004 21:43:45 -0500 (CDT)) 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27952 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27952 Note that the problem we are trying to fix with the above is not encountered very often and there are trivial _other_ ways to fix it, with a very minor change to a regexp. It is not even clear that these trivial ways are really inferior. They may be trivial to implement, but if you're talking about the ones that we discussed, they get rid of a useful feature.