From: joakim@verona.se
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal
Date: Sun, 01 May 2016 17:21:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m337q1x0q0.fsf@exodia.verona.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twih253s.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 01 May 2016 17:03:03 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Resuming: I wonder how would your proposal normalize that information? Would
>> it use a Dired API to populate the buffer, rather than filling it with text
>> and applying a bunch of regexps after the fact?
>
> Yes, indeed. It would be a mode that takes lists of files (and file
> information) and displays that in the way the user wants, instead of
> mangling various textual presentations output by various Unix commands.
That would be nice.
For instance I had a patch that used the filemagic library to return
extended file information to Emacs.
Nowadays I guess you should use the module facility to interface to
filemagic.
I think my point is that lisp could potentially have even better
metadata about a file in a structured way than what is now
available. Something along that line of thought anyway...
--
Joakim Verona
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-01 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-30 23:38 A Modest Proposal Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-30 23:50 ` raman
2016-05-01 0:14 ` John Wiegley
2016-05-01 2:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-01 13:30 ` John Wiegley
2016-05-01 14:44 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-01 15:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-01 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-01 15:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-01 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-01 18:24 ` Alan Third
2016-05-01 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-04 3:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-05-04 4:29 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-04 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-04 10:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-04 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-01 19:21 ` Michael Albinus
2016-05-04 3:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-05-04 8:51 ` Andy Moreton
2016-05-04 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-04 22:13 ` Andy Moreton
2016-05-05 7:58 ` Michael Albinus
2016-05-01 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<834mahollh.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-05-01 16:46 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-01 15:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-01 15:21 ` joakim [this message]
2016-05-01 23:02 ` Richard Stallman
2016-05-01 23:54 ` raman
2016-07-06 14:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
[not found] <<874mai4qhz.fsf@gnus.org>
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