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 18:45:06 +0300 Message-ID: <83vb2xn5od.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874mai4qhz.fsf@gnus.org> <83a8kao624.fsf@gnu.org> <270c962c-11c4-4b0c-9d62-211cbc6f9f47@default> <87y47t256w.fsf@gnus.org> <8337q1olk5.fsf@gnu.org> <9c426b06-f6d9-64f8-0581-6ce221676348@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1462117561 15628 80.91.229.3 (1 May 2016 15:46:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 15:46:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 01 17:45:56 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 1awtZD-00021z-Qr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 17:45:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33496 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awtZA-0002Ca-K4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 11:45:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47626) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awtYk-000248-GM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 11:45:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awtYY-00006I-QZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 11:45:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52896) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awtYY-0008V4-N4; Sun, 01 May 2016 11:45:14 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2597 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1awtYQ-0001Wj-14; Sun, 01 May 2016 11:45:06 -0400 In-reply-to: <9c426b06-f6d9-64f8-0581-6ce221676348@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sun, 1 May 2016 18:28:04 +0300) 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:203489 Archived-At: > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 18:28:04 +0300 > Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 05/01/2016 06:16 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > >> My modest proposal is kinda suggesting that `insert-directory' would go > >> away -- to be replaced by (something like) `ls-lisp--insert-directory'. > > > > Users of Posix platforms will curse you if you do. > > Yes. Listing files using external tools is usually faster. Not only faster, more flexible: the sheer number of options supported by modern variants of 'ls' is overwhelming. ls-lisp supports only a subset of them.