From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Arthur Miller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What is the most useful potential feature which Emacs lacks? 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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:251615 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > This seems like a reasonable solution to me. Alternatively perhaps we > > just need to sell C-x C-f as "open a file or directory" rather than > > "find a file"? > > That would make our initial explanations more complex, and that might > lead to more confusion than clarity. > > I think it is better to explain this wrinkle when the user encounters it, > not before. Aren't users encountering that wrinkle first time they open a file? Observe there are even more wrinkles there to explain: if file does not exist Emacs creates a new buffer, and if user ment a directory, the buffer will still be just a plain file not a dir. And what about if there are some non-existent directories on the way? Emacs asks if user wants them to be created ... so there are quite a few wrinkles in that one, not the simplest behaviour to explain anyway :-). I don't know how you reasoned back in days when find file was introduced/created, but I guess, it was more Unixy, a dir is just a file (everything in Unix is file), so it was assumed that dirs are just files? I don't think millenials see dirs as just files, but I don't know, I might be a bit prejudiced (right word?) here.