>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull
<stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes: 
    Stephen> Mike Sperber is the same Mike Sperber who maintains dired.
>>>> "Ville" == Ville Skytt <Ville>
writes: 
    Ville> Applies to me too :(  Anyone interested?
    Stephen> Not really.  One gets the distinct feeling that these Dired changes
    Stephen> were not discussed with the upstream maintainer.  I get more
    Stephen> interested in saying "forget Emacs compatibility" all the time. 
:-(
    Stephen> Hey, Mike, what would it take to provide real Dired with the relevant
    Stephen> "features" from the GNU version?
The question, though, is what would it take to keep maintaining a
seperate version.