From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature request: dired-open-marked-files Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:42:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <003901c9a53c$27fe5550$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237196624 11707 80.91.229.12 (16 Mar 2009 09:43:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:43:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 16 10:45:00 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lj9NQ-0001Cy-Eo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:44:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51917 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lj9M4-0002Uw-B7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:43:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lj9Kw-0001wU-3B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:42:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lj9Kr-0001uq-OT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:42:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48847 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lj9Kr-0001uh-5L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:42:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:58942) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lj9Kq-00017W-Ti for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:42:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Lj9Kq-0004La-Ea; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:42:16 -0400 In-reply-to: <003901c9a53c$27fe5550$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (drew.adams@oracle.com) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:109650 Archived-At: Dunno what's so controversial. I've always wondered, on the contrary, why the Dired X features are not loaded and made available by default. Because then people would expect them to be in the Emacs Manual. The original reason I set up dired-x.el was that there was a person who wanted to write a lot of Dired extensions. I did not think they should all be standardly loaded, so I told him he could put any features he liked into dired-x.el. In any case, I see no reason not to move the F command to ordinary dired. By the way, the reason for the separation between dired.el and dired-aux.el was to keep Emacs small, back in 1985 or so. That reason is obsolete nowadays.