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Re: A Modest Proposal
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John Wiegley |
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Re: A Modest Proposal |
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Sat, 30 Apr 2016 17:14:14 -0700 |
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>>>>> Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
> I think the basic design is misguided. There is so much talk about matching
> up "ls" parameters to internal stuff that it makes my head swim. (Even if
> I'm not feverish.) C'mon. We're not barbarians. We can read directories
> ourselves.
Maybe the default behavior for dired should be to just use opendir. That
sounds like a good idea to me.
However, dired does a heck of a lot more than just call "ls": It lets you act
on anything with the same basic format, such as output from "find" or "ack".
So, the regexps are handy in that they're allowing a common, "group of files"
browsing metaphor on lots of stuff that just looks like, well, a group of
files.
Another random idea that just occurred to me: Given any compilation buffer,
create a dired buffer from it containing only the files that had errors.
Sometimes useful when I want to search/replace across every non-compiling
file.
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?
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