Re: Making it easier to enable dired-x

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:00:20 -0700 "Drew Adams" <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> I somehow feel that it should be an easier way to enable dired-x,
>> specifically through "customize", than to manually enter some Lisp
>> code in the init file. Furthermore, it wasn't obvious to me that I
>> need to look in the manual to find out how to enable dired-x.
>> 
>> What do you think? Is it a good idea or even possible to add a
>> defcustom to dired.el which decides whether or not to load dired-x
>> with dired?

DA> Nowadays we should "enable" it by default.  It should just be part of dired.
DA> Likewise dired-aux.  (Just one opinion.)

I agree, there's no reason to make those two optional.  The
functionality they provide is useful.

Ted