Re: A Modest Proposal

[joakim]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> Yes, indeed.  It would be a mode that takes lists of files (and file
> information) and displays that in the way the user wants, instead of
> mangling various textual presentations output by various Unix commands.

That would be nice.

For instance I had a patch that used the filemagic library to return
extended file information to Emacs.

Nowadays I guess you should use the module facility to interface to
filemagic.

I think my point is that lisp could potentially have even better
metadata about a file in a structured way than what is now
available. Something along that line of thought anyway...
-- 
Joakim Verona