From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal Date: Sun, 01 May 2016 17:03:03 +0200 Message-ID: <87twih253s.fsf@gnus.org> References: <874mai4qhz.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1462115030 11477 80.91.229.3 (1 May 2016 15:03:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 15:03:50 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 01 17:03:42 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 1awsuJ-00071D-3M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 17:03:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33368 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awsuF-0004FC-GD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 11:03:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38612) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awsu6-00045h-JA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 11:03:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awstu-00077p-On for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 11:03:21 -0400 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:54492) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awstu-000760-Iu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 11:03:14 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.1.64.getinternet.no ([84.215.1.64] helo=mouse) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1awstj-0007T5-Hy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 17:03:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: (John Wiegley's message of "Sat, 30 Apr 2016 17:14:14 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 80.91.224.195 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:203481 Archived-At: John Wiegley writes: > Resuming: I wonder how would your proposal normalize that information? Would > it use a Dired API to populate the buffer, rather than filling it with text > and applying a bunch of regexps after the fact? Yes, indeed. It would be a mode that takes lists of files (and file information) and displays that in the way the user wants, instead of mangling various textual presentations output by various Unix commands. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no