Re: [Emacs-diffs] master fd54102: * lisp/files.el (file-size-function): New defcustom

[Mattias Engdegård]

20 juli 2019 kl. 20.50 skrev Basil L. Contovounesios <address@hidden>:
> 
> New user options in central places like files.el (as opposed to some
> specialised package) usually warrant a RFC so as to establish which need
> they are addressing, whether this need masks some other issue, and
> whether the proposed change covers this need sufficiently well.
> 
> Internal variables can come and go, but user options are user-facing
> contracts that are harder to change or get rid of.

Agreed, and this defcustom (file-size-function) has a much more 
general-sounding name and description than merited by its effects (which are 
limited to the "available disk space" number in Dired and that's it).

Attached is a minimal clean-up which remedies some of the flaws, but perhaps we 
should instead roll back the defcustom and all related changes entirely until a 
cohesive proposal is forthcoming, as per your and Eli's comments. Fighting it 
out in the source isn't really going to be productive.

0001-Clean-up-file-size-function-with-better-default-valu.patch
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