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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>
Cc: 54962@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54962: 28.1; insert-directory-program should be ls-program
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 22:50:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r15y15yp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AAF97CC6-54FB-4A15-A023-D8F54373CCF5@gmail.com> (message from Howard Melman on Fri, 15 Apr 2022 15:24:41 -0400)

> From: Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 15:24:41 -0400
> 
> This is minor, but I think insert-directory-program should
> be called ls-program.  I'm sure it's for historical reasons
> but a variable alias or other solution would be great.

No one said it has to be 'ls'.  It can be anything else, as long as it
produces the same output.

So I see no reason to change the name of that variable.

> On the mac I think it's common to install gnu ls as "gls"
> and I had hard time finding the emacs variable to set to
> have it use this.

That is not a reason to rename the variable, it is perhaps a reason to
improve our Help and Apropos facilities.

> There are several dozen such variables
> and they all follow a similar more discoverable naming
> pattern as this sample:

Those are much more specific.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-15 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-15 19:24 bug#54962: 28.1; insert-directory-program should be ls-program Howard Melman
2022-04-15 19:50 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-04-15 19:56   ` Howard Melman
2022-04-15 20:09     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-15 20:16   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-15 21:35     ` Howard Melman
2022-04-16  6:42       ` Eli Zaretskii

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