Re: [Bug: 21.4.19] dired does not work properly anymore

Stephen> If you mean avoiding a subprocess by examining the directory Stephen> ourselves, we already have the Lisp primitives needed to Stephen> write ls(1) in Lisp. However, the people who wrote ls have Stephen> already done the work necessary to make it portable across Stephen> platforms; doing that again seems silly. I'm not thinking of gaining speed but to avoid having to parse the localized output. The regexp doing that isn't easy to digest. But it's a trade of. ls(1) provides nice(!?) formated and human readable output of the directory. The downside is that we need to teach dired to parse it in order to use the output for navigation and commands. For my normal work I tend to use only a fragment of the information in a ls-l-listing so a much simpler directory view would suffice for me. On the other hand, going to external systems by means of ssh etc, we are back again to parsing the output from ls ... Yours -- %% Mats _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta