Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED]

[Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> My point to you here was that instead of advising
> the default handler you can define your own handler.
> That's why we have handlers, and why the default
> handler is, well, the default (handler).

That wasn't me.

>> > In Bookmark+ Dired buffers have their own bookmark handler.
>> > Bookmarking a Dired buffer records not just the directory location but
>> > also its `ls' switches, which files are marked, which subdirs are
>> > inserted, and which (sub)dirs are hidden.  Jumping to a Dired bookmark
>> > restores all of that.
>> 
>> Could that handler be upstreamed into Dired, please?  It seems like that
>> functionality ought to be built-in.
>
> I've offered Bookmark+ several times to Emacs.
> And I've mentioned specific features even more
> times.  They could be included or used as food
> for thought.

To be clear, I'm asking if you would upstream that specific feature, the
enhanced bookmark-make-record function and the bookmark handler for
Dired buffers.  It seems likely that those two functions would be easily
upstreamed without much modification or objection, and all Dired users
would benefit immediately.