From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal Date: Sun, 01 May 2016 18:15:54 +0300 Message-ID: <834mahollh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874mai4qhz.fsf@gnus.org> <83a8kao624.fsf@gnu.org> <270c962c-11c4-4b0c-9d62-211cbc6f9f47@default> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1462115803 22698 80.91.229.3 (1 May 2016 15:16:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 15:16:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 01 17:16:38 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 1awt6r-0004mv-He for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 17:16:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33416 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awt6n-0007Z1-Po for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 11:16:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41307) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awt6R-0007NM-H7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 11:16:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awt6F-0001d1-Nc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 11:16:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52443) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awt6F-0001cL-KA; Sun, 01 May 2016 11:15:59 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2536 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1awt69-0002Po-GE; Sun, 01 May 2016 11:15:53 -0400 In-reply-to: <270c962c-11c4-4b0c-9d62-211cbc6f9f47@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sun, 1 May 2016 06:44:03 -0800 (GMT-08:00)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:203482 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 06:44:03 -0800 (GMT-08:00) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > 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/* Not for me, it doesn't; not if I set the 3rd arg non-nil, as the doc string says I should.