Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED]

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> I don't use Sunrise
> My memory from looking at it years ago was that it was non-functioning
> abandon-ware.

My question was really about how you designed your system compared
to it.  Your answer indicates you didn't, which implies you've likely
reinvented some of its square wheels (because that's inevitably what we
do when we don't try to learn from past mistakes).

Basically, if you're writing a package that's not meant only for your
own usage, it's worthwhile to take a close look at other similar packages,
including the dead ones (e.g. to learn what to avoid if you don't want
to fall into the same "dead" category, and you also sometimes bump into
some really good idea).

> When I had tried recentf years ago, I was disappointed that its only
> interface was the ncurses menu.

That shouldn't preclude using recentf's infrastructure/data and
providing a different UI on top of it.

> a user would need to visually filter out the path-names ending with
> a file from those ending with a directory ...

Your code could do that filtering, couldn't it?


        Stefan