Re: A Modest Proposal

[Andy Moreton]

On Tue 03 May 2016, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> Don't forget that `insert-directory' supports file name handlers like
>> Tramp. So it isn't just replacing one function by another one, you
>> should keep this functionality as well.
>
> AFAIK ls-lisp is implemented with functions that are also handled by
> Tramp, so it should work just as well.

Except for platforms where ls-lisp does not understand the underlying
file system in the same way as the external tool.

For example, on windows the permissions from ls-lisp are fairly
meaningless, and do not match what is reported from MSYS, MSYS2 or
Cygwin versions of ls (all of which have different filesystem paths and
different permissions semantics).

Please keep things the way they are.

    AndyM