From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal Date: Sun, 01 May 2016 19:02:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <874mai4qhz.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1462143822 31813 80.91.229.3 (1 May 2016 23:03:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 23:03:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 02 01:03:33 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 1ax0Oj-0000PM-2T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 May 2016 01:03:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34532 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ax0Oe-0006dw-VV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 19:03:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40549) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ax0OW-0006Vk-AH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 19:03:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ax0OK-0005ot-Sj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 19:03:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33284) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ax0O5-0005jZ-S7; Sun, 01 May 2016 19:02:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ax0Nz-0007Bt-Rm; Sun, 01 May 2016 19:02:47 -0400 In-reply-to: <874mai4qhz.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 01 May 2016 01:38:00 +0200) 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:203507 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] In the past, running Dired was much faster than generating a directory listing in Emacs. This was very important. Maybe all computers are now so fast that this no longer matters. But don't fail to check! -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.