From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: A Modest Proposal Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 06:44:03 -0800 (GMT-08:00) Message-ID: <270c962c-11c4-4b0c-9d62-211cbc6f9f47@default> References: <874mai4qhz.fsf@gnus.org> <83a8kao624.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1462113933 28385 80.91.229.3 (1 May 2016 14:45:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 14:45:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 01 16:45:21 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1awscb-0006sk-6p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 16:45:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33328 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awscX-0001oT-E0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 10:45:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35624) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awscM-0001ZV-CN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 10:45:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awscA-00037H-MR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 10:45:00 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:19298) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awsbz-0002yi-He; Sun, 01 May 2016 10:44:43 -0400 Original-Received: from userv0021.oracle.com (userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id u41Ei5QO023922 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 1 May 2016 14:44:06 GMT Original-Received: from userv0121.oracle.com (userv0121.oracle.com [156.151.31.72]) by userv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u41Ei5B5006705 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 1 May 2016 14:44:05 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0019.oracle.com (abhmp0019.oracle.com [141.146.116.25]) by userv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u41Ei41V012589; Sun, 1 May 2016 14:44:05 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6744.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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 Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:203479 Archived-At: > That's what ls-lisp.el does. BTW, I'm guessing that some of the features that `ls-lisp.el' offers could be extended to Dired for the case where it is not used, i.e., the case where `ls' is used. For example, `ls-lisp.el' advises `insert-directory' so that it uses `ls-lisp--insert-directory', and that lets you do things like insert "/foo/*", meaning insert all of the files (and subdirs) in directory foo, that is, its contents and not just a single line for the directory. Without using ls-lisp, trying to do that results in: insert-directory: Reading directory: no such file or directory, /foo/* Perhaps `insert-directory' could be enhanced to do a little more of what `ls-lisp--insert-directory' does?