Subject: Re: bug#18836: 25.0.50; `insert-directory' barfs on nonexistent file, but not for `ls-lisp-insert-directory'

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 18:05:06 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked]
>> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 17:46:10 +0200
>> 
>> >> I have no opinion on that, but: What on Earth is that function (and all
>> >> its adjacent functions) doing in files.el?
>> >
>> > Where else would you like them to be?
>> 
>> In dired.el.
>
> Dired isn't preloaded.

But does anything other than dired use it?  I see that other packages
(like ange-ftp) instrument it...  it that the reason it's in files.el?

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