Re: Making it easier to enable dired-x

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

Hi!

>> Eg dired-filename-at-point is not massively different to ffap and
>> thing-at-pt,

`dired-filename-at-point' returns the expanded file name in a dired
buffer.  (thing-at-point 'filename) returns only the last part.  So the
former is clearly useful when writing code operating it dired buffers.

>> stuff like "hands-off-my-x-keys" seems clunky, dired-x's local
>> variables are now replaced by dir-locals, there's 50 lines and 3
>> commands dedicated just to deleting TeX and patch temp files, etc.

Yes, for those, I agree.

>> Plus it has its own manual, which is ~ 80% of the length of
>> dired.texi, which would have to be merged in somehow.
>
> I tend to agree.  I would welcome adding the remaining useful
> functionality of dired-x into dired and then making dired-x obsolete.

From dired-aux, I think the subdir stuff is really useful.

From dired-x, I frequently use `dired-jump' and `dired-omit-mode'.

Bye,
Tassilo