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Re: A Modest Proposal
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: A Modest Proposal |
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Sun, 01 May 2016 18:45:06 +0300 |
> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 18:28:04 +0300
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
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> On 05/01/2016 06:16 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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> >> My modest proposal is kinda suggesting that `insert-directory' would go
> >> away -- to be replaced by (something like) `ls-lisp--insert-directory'.
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> > Users of Posix platforms will curse you if you do.
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> Yes. Listing files using external tools is usually faster.
Not only faster, more flexible: the sheer number of options supported
by modern variants of 'ls' is overwhelming. ls-lisp supports only a
subset of them.