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 16:56:19 +0200

Drew Adams <[email-masked]> writes:

> Would it be possible to make vanilla `insert-directory' more tolerant,
> i.e., make it act like `ls-lisp-insert-directory', in this respect?

I have no opinion on that, but: What on Earth is that function (and all
its adjacent functions) doing in files.el?

(insert-directory "." "-l")
=>
drwxrwxr-x 22 larsi larsi 4096 april 30 16:49 .

This doesn't seem like a very ... useful general function.

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